Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...
...precocious (10) Poetess Minou Drouet was starring in a movie titled Clara and the Crooks, a sentimental tale about a lovable tyke who reforms a gang of bandits through her inexorable sweetness and innocence. During a recess at the suburban Paris studio, little Minou chirped excitedly about her film career: "We have had several scenarios offered to us, but I didn't like them. In one of the stories I was supposed to strangle a dog. Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save bad men!" To busy herself...
Mussolini, the latest example of a notably successful TV specialty, is in great part a monument to a new kind of sleuth: the film searcher. Before Twentieth Century could fit together the show's dramatic jigsaw pattern in celluloid, searchers had to hunt out the bits and pieces of aging film in 25 different hoards in four countries; to give editors a choice, they brought in ten times as much footage as editors could...
...Omnibus" film will be shown to students and prospectives in the Miami area at the home of Will S. Lindsley, 4425 Sabal Palm Road, Bay Point, Miami, on the 27th at 5 p.m. The Kansas City Club will hold its luncheon at Eddy's at noon...
...should be said to the film's credit that those battle scenes which are shown are quite effective. Whatever shortcomings Messrs. Powell and Pressburger may have as writers and directors, they have, in their role of producers, still assembled a fine special effects crew. And so in the end the ships themselves emerge as the real "heroes" of the picture...