Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horse's Mouth is the story of the later life of Gully Jimson: painter, pauper, genius. Taken from the novel by Joyce Cary, the film consists of a number of incidents which act as a vehicle for the character of Gully Jimson. Everything is pointed toward Jimson, everything aimed at exposing his indomitable nature. In fact Jimson is the film, and Alec Guinness, as Jimson, is magnificent...
...Variety added up the year's income for Hollywood's top ten film and theater companies, reported that while the combined gross came to a whopping $1,102,500,000 for 1958, business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. ¶ For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes...
...time DeMille produced his fifth movie, The Man from Home, in 1914, he was a slick showman. He was experimenting with artificial lighting, using shading to create the illusion of depth. When a wire from Goldwyn complained that exhibitors would pay only half price for a half-lit film, C.B. wired back: IF YOU DON'T KNOW REMBRANDT LIGHTING WHEN YOU SEE IT, DON'T BLAME ME. Goldwyn promptly answered: FOR THAT THE EXHIBITORS WILL PAY DOUBLE...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Cohesive film clips of De Gaulle in an earlier triumphal hour, entering liberated Paris...