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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years as an art movie theatre playing films on a repertory basis the Brattle has played foreign films from almost every country which has a film industry of any size--German, French, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Mexican, British, Polish--and a great many American re-issues which have some status as film classics or which happen to please the management or which fill gaps in a program which becomes increasingly difficult to schedule with the current "product shortage" yawning emptily before art theatres throughout the country...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Anniversary of a Theatre | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Brattle anniversaries have been marked by "Miss Julie," the film version of Strindberg's play made in Sweden starring Anita Bjork; "Desires," a serious but deceptively titled German film about morphine addiction; and "Citizen Kane," starring Orson Welles, landmark in anybody's history of motion pictures. Two of the films, "Miss Julie" and "Desires," were barred from Sunday exhibition by the censors because of their controversial and/or questionable material, and it was on the basis of the ban of "Miss Julie" that the Brattle and its lawyers fought down the Massachusetts Sunday censorship law which was declared unconstitutional on July...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Anniversary of a Theatre | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

MOSCOW, Feb. 11--Soviet Premier Bulganin dangled promises of a new era of friendship before West Germany in a letter published tonight. He proposed "profitable" trade with the Bonn Republic and Moscow's good offices in seeking German reunification...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Stock Market Swings Downward As Prices Reach 15-Month Low; Ike to Talk With Macmillan, Moffet | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

Died. Friedrich von Paulus, 66, onetime Wehrmacht field marshal who led the ill-fated German Sixth Army at the decisive World War II Battle of Stalingrad, sold out to the Russians after his capture; of a stroke; in Dresden, East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Derring-Documentary | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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