Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...
...didn't look that bad to 20th Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck, who managed to smile bravely under the thumping. The court, said he, obviously had no thought of divorcement. "Movie stocks only dropped a point or so," said Zanuck. "If divorcement had been ordered, stocks would have gone down ten points...
Anna Karenina (Korda; 20th Century-Fox) is the latest movie version (there have been four U.S. ones) of Tolstoy's lesser masterpiece. It is by far the costliest ($2,000,000) but far from the best.* Sir Alexander Korda and his British bankers provided the money; France's famed Director Julien Duvivier (Pepe Le Moko, Panic) contributed' his talents...
...Italy has the heaviest schedule: Columbia plans to make four more opera adaptations there (next: Faust), Edward Small is completing Cagliostro, 20th Century-Fox will film Prince of Foxes...
Twelve 0'Clock High! is a "novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe...