Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle has probably made a profitable move in showing Birth of a Nation: for all its excusable crudities and questionable motives, the film is interesting because it was the first member of the aging dynasty of Hollywood epics...
...Helmut Käutner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months in West Germany and has grossed 4,000,000 DM. But the U.S. moviegoer, while acknowledging the film's superlative skill and horror as a biopsy of the Nazi cancer, may have some reservations about how it reads the riddle of the German character...
...film's hero, General Harras (Curt Jürgens), is admittedly modeled after the late Ernst Udet, the German ace of World War I who was a Luftwaffe general in World War II. Harras hates the Nazis, but not as much as he loves his air force, and he knows that if he gives up the one he will have to give up the other. So he goes along, year after year, swallowing his disgust ("After each sitting [i.e., conference] I feel like pulling the chain") and guzzling champagne-the picture of a man too weak...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...