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...Third Man (Sir Alexander Korda; David O. Selznick) is already a smash hit in Britain, where most critics hailed it as the best movie of 1949. U.S. moviegoers are likely to find it one of the best of 1950. Like The Fallen Idol, by the same brilliant British team-Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene-it adds an extra depth of character insight and a new texture of pictorial eloquence to the kind of spellbinding thriller that made Alfred Hitchcock famous...
...England's 40% entertainment tax, through which the Labor government got $25,000,000 from Rank's films alone. Said Rank: "Too much of the industry's life blood is being drained out of the box office." His plaint was echoed by Sir Alexander Korda, independent moviemaker who has also had his troubles, and who has also asked for aid in the form of tax relief for the industry...
...dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
...Fallen Idol (Korda; S.R.O.), when Sir Alexander Korda released it last year in London, was a tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...
Alexander Korda imported Burgess Meredith to England to play the thoughtful, smiling, pipe-smoking analyst, who, exasperated by his ineffectual, though devoted spouse, falls in love with another woman. So intent is he on curing a young ex-flyer who has tried to kill his own wife, that the psychiatrist is unable to patch up the disintegrating marriage in his own home...