Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kicking "Big C." Thirty-eight years of such energy, courage and authority have made John Wayne the greatest moneymaker in movie history: the gross comes to nearly $400 million. He is still the hero by Hemingway out of Hollywood, the he-man's he-man and the she-fan's idol. He talks and looks as tough as ever, though it was less than three years ago that he lost a lung while, as he put it, "kicking the Big C (cancer...
...late '40's Hollywood took up not far from where it had left off ten years earlier. Movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, Crossfire, and Gentleman's Agreement (not to mention some of the more foolish ones like Pinky) reflected the same social preoccupations which, if in more outspoken and less glossy terms, had characterized American theatre...
...short revival. Politically, Hollywood soon succumbed to the rise of McCarthy, and culturally to that of television, both of which forced the motion picture industry to compete almost exclusively for an audience it had previously sought to resist. The results of this competition were fast and unmistakable: genres rose overnight to replace the social problems that were now taboo. Foreign settings, both in time and place, took over when it became impossible to face the present forcefully. Hacks were rampant...
...minutes of Hurry Sundown would be hard to fault. The last 45 minutes, at least in terms of the script, would be hard to find anything good about. The problem is that Preminger's setting -- the postwar South -- is seen not from twenty years later but from the contemporary Hollywood of the late 40's. There is no reason why, in the context of this one picture, Preminger had to tackle the great social questions of the South. His two leading characters were fascinating enough for him to have avoided treating racial questions at all. But as long...
Director Gene Kelly has guided Guide flawlessly, making it as crisp and catchy as one of his old dance routines. But it is hard to see how any moviemaker could have gone wrong with one of Hollywood's ultimate weapons: Walter Matthau. Underplaying the male norm pondering the female form, Matthau creates a triumph of taste in a role that could have been merely low-down and dirty-proving once again that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor...