Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie Touch of Evil in Britain's New Statesman, corpulent Cinemagician Orson Welles let fly with a frustrated bleat in self-defense. Although he is listed as Touch of Evil's writer and director, wrote Welles, the picture's flaws are not all his: the film appeared after "wholesale re-editing by the executive producer, a process of rehashing in which I was forbidden to participate. Confusion was further confounded by several added scenes which I did not write and was not invited to direct...
...this was no imaginary corner of outer space. For a typical underwater interlude in the shooting of Sea Hunt, one of the world's most widely syndicated TV dramas, Tors & Co. were in the depths of a huge kelp bed off Santa Catalina Island. The film they were making is being seen over 167 U.S. TV stations, and broadcasted in 20 other countries in eight languages. Though distributed on film (by Ziv Television Programs, Inc.) rather than on a network. Sea Hunt is among the ten top-rated U.S. syndicated shows...
...doubts about Sea Hunt's wide appeal are now being dispelled by the Soviet Union. Ziv, biggest U.S. film syndicator, last April turned over 13 installments to the U.S.S.R. in the first swap of TV films under the new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program. At the moment. Sea Hunt is being dubbed in Russian. Soon Mike Nelson will be captivating the U.S.S.R.'s adventure lovers as he peers fearlessly through his mask, gurgles defiance, draws his knife...
...disk jockeys should stick to their musical saddles, told Sherwood to shut up about the Indians. He sulked. "Somebody got to somebody," he said during his TV variety show, "and I can't mention the Navajos . . ." Click! and he was off the air, replaced by a traffic safety film. He fought back on his morning radio show over rival KSFO, playing Indian music and calling KSFO "Radio Free San Francisco...
...Harvard classics scholar considers the following repartee inspired: "Did you know that a single alligator can lay ninety-seven eggs in a year?" "Well! Imagine what a married one could do." If we discount the grunts of various reptiles, this, sadly enough, may be the best line in the film...