Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston, a county judge checked the estate left by a man who hit the Texas jackpot in lumber and real estate: the late Jesse H. Jones, ex-Secretary of Commerce and former head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The jackpot: $9,665,302, including $3,389,701 in cash and $5,978,328 in stocks and bonds...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME, April...
...drama packed with jive-talking juveniles are due for a letdown. Burning Hills is simply one more version of the venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep out on the prairie without a chaperon. The villains had several good chances to rub them out, but missed...
...Stop (20th Century-Fox) is a rowdy little comedy that makes an engaging showcase for Marilyn Monroe's growing sureness as a comedienne. Based on William Inge's 1955 Broadway hit and skillfully liberated from the theater's confining forms by Adapter George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, the film explodes with a Fourth of July excitement from the moment Cowboy Don Murray hits Phoenix to compete in his first rodeo...
...King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version in CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...