Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter of Spyros P. Skouras, president, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., is most amazing [TIME, Jan. 19]. He has seen fit to publish the fact that his company will meet with self-appointed censors who, without any vestige of constitutional authority, shall determine what you and I shall view on the screen...
...Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox...
...five top-grossing companies (figured on pictures which grossed $2,000,000 plus): MGM, $50,900,000 on 15 pictures; Paramount, $48,050,000 on 13; RKO, $39,050,000, on ten; Warner, $38,800,000 on 14; 20th Century-Fox...
...Tender Years (20th Century-Fox) is a tearjerker about a mid-19th Century dog. The dog has to fight professionally to earn his master's keep, although he would prefer to live peacefully with a little boy. The picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...