Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Razzia (Kassler) is a harrowingly realistic gangster picture-perhaps the most painstaking study of criminal methods that has ever been made in an entertainment film...
...convention in Chicago. Jack Kennedy was back in business. He narrated the party film, The Pursuit of Happiness, which was premiered at the convention, and he made a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson. But Adlai, after winning, threw the vice-presidential nomination wide open (some say as an invitation to Jack Kennedy), and the great Stop Kefauver movement began. Kennedys gathered in a suite at the Hotel Conrad Hilton, trying to decide whether Jack should go after the nomination. Then word came that the Georgia delegation had caucused in favor of Kennedy. Jack jumped up. "By God," cried...
...Hotel George V in Paris, green-bathrobed Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck told the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald how he rated Author Ernest Hemingway as a movie critic. Film in point: Zanuck's screen version of Papa's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Sept. 2). Hemingway was quoted in the London Sunday Dispatch as saying: "I saw Darryl Zanuck's splashy Cook's tour of Europe's lost-generation bistros, bull fights and more bistros. It's all pretty disappointing, and that's being gracious. You're meant...
...week's end Goldwyn announced that he was "enthusiastic about getting a great cast," said he still wanted to do the film because "this play has more poetry than almost anything I've ever produced, and it shows what great artists there are amongst the colored race...
Torment won the Cannes Film Festival award in 1946. The war had reduced the number of choices that year considerably...