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...Council speech, he also contended that many things the Civilian Defense leaders in Washington are saying "are just hokum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Plans Of University Almost Ready | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Kipling's red-blooded hokum comes to the screen almost intact, lacks nothing for juvenile excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two. As Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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