Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Came to Cordura (William Goetz; Columbia), based on the 1958 bestseller by Glendon Swarthout, is a big, flashy, $4,000,000 Gary Cooper western. Its primary purpose is to grab the top dollar in the November movie market, but incidentally it tries to "put [its] hand," as the script proclaims, "on the bare heart of heroism." Director Robert Rossen, who wrote the script with Ivan Moffat, never gets quite that close to the mystery of courage. But he does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger...
...Bomberger and Charlie Goetz, who came in fourth and fifth behind three varsity runners in last fall's triangulars, will go to the mark for Providence, as will Bill Horridge, who was eighth. Of the first three Crimson finishers a year ago, moreover, only one, Jed Fitzgerald, is left. And the Friars have a powerful complement of sophomores...
...they study the stranger. On the second day, in the car, one of my cop chums turned to me and said: "You're German, aren't you?" "No," I said. "I'm Irish-English." "Well, what about your middle name?" he said. "You mean 'Goetz?' " I asked. "Yes." So I said I had just a little German in me, and remembered that the only place my middle name appeared was on my passport (I had not used it on my tourist card), which I had locked in my dispatch case in my room...
...finish, though, is not quite what the audience expects. The almost sappy major chord of the conclusion is suddenly modulated into a slyly suspenseful and sophisticated dissonance. The sophistication may not be real, but it is realistic. Broadway is pretty much like what Scriptwriters Ruth and Augustus Goetz and Director Sidney Lumet...
...bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary a bequest. L. B.'s stated reason for this was tart enough: "During my lifetime, I have given them extremely substantial assistance through gifts and financial assistance to my daughter's husband and through the advancement of his career (as distinguished from that...