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TIME April 2 erred in stating [Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster] made Marty because we "needed a flop to write off as a tax loss." Indeed, had Marty failed, we'd have had nothing to write it off against, because it was optimistically made by a specially organized Marty partnership, which owned no other properties...
NAVY'S DEMON JET FIGHTER, which was a $200 million flop with underpowered Westinghouse engines, is finally getting airborne. Six planes with Allison engines have passed flight tests and joined the fleet. The Navy, which was sharply criticized by a House subcommittee for its part in the fiasco, along with Planemaker McDonnell, now thinks all the bugs are licked, will spend another $55 million for more Demons...
...rights, the film should be a flop. Yet it is a brilliant achievement, owing in part to the fact that Welles knows how to make the most of the movie medium as a valid and unique art form. No-one but Welles would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction...
...just after the Senate censure. Only one major publication saw fit to write on him at all in the last three months of the year--and that was the evervindictive Nation, whose correspondent pursued the Senator on a speaking tour to Boston to write a piece entitled "Comeback Flop." The news index of the New York Times tells the same story of lack of stories. In 1953 and 1954, McCarthy made the front page of the Times almost as much as the President of the United States. It was a rare day when some newspaper somewhere in the country...
...first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative of a foreign film...