Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood...
...Hollywood, looking at the statistics for a so-so year, managed to keep from dissolving in gloom. Only 216 pictures went into production during 1958, as, opposed to 297 in 1957, and movie-theater attendance dropped 7.6% from 1957. But theater owners cut their losses to 2.5%. Their method: raising admission prices...
...kindest of all possible considerations, a big windy non-drama about God, Satan, and Job retold rather in the manner of such movies as Since You Went Away and The Best Years of Our Lives," and "written in what is also a sort of Hollywood verse." His reaction to the production, furthermore, was only lukewarm. Henry Hewes (Saturday Review) dismissed J.B. as "just an inconclusive effort...
...Japan has the second biggest (after Hollywood) in terms of number of movies and footage shot...
...thumb (George Pal; MGM) is one of the nicest Christmas presents Hollywood ever gave the pigtail-and-popgun set. Producer George Pal has managed to mingle puppets, live actors and animated cartoons with such skill that not once can the spectator see the embarrassing seam where two sorts of cinema meet. As a piece of entertainment, the film is unusually fresh and appealing; it is kid stuff, but it will probably sell a lot of popcorn to the grownups...