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This time of year, critics, exhibitors, trade papers and assorted know-it-alls select their cinema bests-and after checking over the 1954 crop, the choices were pretty automatic all the way. At the top of the heap: Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly...
...year produced three whiz-bang musicals. Carmen Jones, which put the U.S. Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some swell songs and dances...
...father, a bumbling buffoon in an alcoholic fog, repents the ill treatment he has given his son only after the son has been murdered. Pedro's heartless mother, once repented, passes unknowingly by the mule on which her son's body is being carried away to the garbage heap...
...takes a heap of money to put a show into a Broadway house, and a heap more to keep it there. A smash-hit musical like The Pajama Game (TIME, May 24) cost a relatively low $190,000 to get started but it has to gross $31,000 a week to break even. Fanny cost its producers $265,000, has a weekly break-even figure of $34,000 and must run 17 weeks to pay off its cost. In Fanny's case, however, there is little worry-its weekly gross so far is a whopping...
...Chesterton's keen sense of antithesis, and in the Father Brown stories he rammed the paradox, like an intellectual skeleton, through some otherwise flabby fiction. In this movie based on the stories, the intellectual skeleton is removed, and the film falls all of a sentimental heap...