Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle against a tyrannical government in the early years of this country. Given this plot, the film might have emerged as either a wild, bloodletting Western or a saccharine treatment of patriotic bugaboo. But John Steinbeck carefully avoided both in a script that director Elia Kazan has bandled with magic. His art is obvious in the charactarization of Zapata, heroically played by Marlon Brando...
...cast can do little with the musical score and script. Eddie Albert in the title role is called upon to juggle, perform magic tricks, and swallow fire, in addition to the normal chores of musical comedy. He does these well, but it is difficult to evaluate his interpretation because Reuben's character is left so vague and undefined. Evelyn Lear as his girl gives a hrikingly uneven performance at various times, she manages to resemble Martha Raye, June Allyson, and Joan Crawford. Kaye Ballard, the brilliant comedienne of The Golden Apple, suffers most from the sparseness of the material...
...Magic Hours. Ed's own struggle for survival is inescapably linked with the greater war the networks themselves are fighting for control of a billion-dollar empire. All other forms of mass entertainment have been enfeebled by the burgeoning rise of TV. Except for heavyweight-championship bouts, TV practically owns boxing; it has cut heavily into the attendance at baseball games, and each year the colleges squabble more fiercely about how much or how little TV should be allowed. Radio, though it still has 3,410 stations and 120 million receivers, trails far behind TV as an attention-getter...
This year the TV networks are riding high, with sponsors bidding feverishly for prime time-those magic evening hours between 7:30 and 10:30. In this sellers' market, CBS and NBC are in the fortunate position of wartime butchers. At times the steak offered is obviously horsemeat, but if the man in the white apron says it's steak, steak...
...Wind in the Willows, they must have a human being around to put words into their mouths. This human being must be young, honest and gifted with an extra sense, like little Tom Barber. He must see the world as Tom sees it-as a place where magic abounds...