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There is nothing to carp about in this picture. The stars are superb, the story sensational, and the scenery simple. The color blends instead of blares. The dialogue is droll and dramatic in proper turn. I have nothing but praise for M-G-M...
...Quiet Man (Republic). 4) Because You're Mine (M-G-M...
...Prisoner of Zenda (MGM) is the first time in Technicolor, but the fourth time on film, for Anthony Hope's durable 1894 Ruritanian romance. The Ruritania in this edition is as magnificent a mythical kingdom as M-G-M money can buy-outsize castles, royal hunting lodges and gargantuan coronation balls...
Last week Director Joe Mankiewicz (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives) finished shooting a $2,000,000 picture that takes a calculated risk of being a box-office flop. Julius Caesar is the first effort by M-G-M to film Shakespeare since Romeo and Juliet lost more than a quarter of a million dollars in 1936. Shakespeare is supposed to be box-office poison, but Mankiewicz and Producer John Houseman think they have a sure-fire script. Says Mankiewicz: "It's a good, rip-snorting piece of blood & thunder coupled with eternally...
...with off & on suspensions and promises to report. Meanwhile, the cast and crew of The Student Prince stood by -at a reported cost to the studio of $20,000 a day. Finally, with Lanza apparently still not feeling up to his work and still making no reasonable explanation, M-G-M announced that it had canceled production of the Prince, and would sue Lanza for breach of contract and over $700,000 in costs...