Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation may be unlikely penology and ponderous allegory, but it is dramatic as can be, and could have made for a memorable film. But our old friend Stanley Kramer got hold of this and decided to hit the great American public between the eyes. He made sure that every scene was underlined as firmly as possible. He managed, perhaps with difficulty, to secure Tony Curtis for the lead. While he did not spoil The Defiant Ones, he cheapened...
...film is spotted with a succession of little horrors. We see the two convicts with nooses around their necks, surrounded by an angry mob; a woman's voice pipes up, "What you menfolks goin' t' do?" The pursuing posse includes a little man who plays rock and roll on a portable radio--so that, with each flashback, the audience will remember who these people...
...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...
...Louis University's new $4,500,000 Pius XII General Library, to be completed early next year, the color slides of the Urbino Bible, along with films of all the other photographed works will be on ready tap for scholars. St. Louis University has now become a center for manuscript research previously possible only at the Vatican. To make sure that the film stands as good a chance of survival as the originals, the negatives will be kept in a special fireproof, burglarproof vault, under strict temperature and humidity controls. That the film will never become the sole record...
Once the domain of oracles, astrologers, sooth-sayers, and writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon...