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...Young Doctors (United Artists) is a dissecting-room meller that offers any moviegoer with the stomach for it a slice of hospital life. True, the story has been sliced twice before. Author Arthur Hailey first told it in a TV play (No Deadly Medicine), later in a novel (The Final Diagnosis). In the hands of Scriptwriter Joseph Hayes, the slice begins to seem a shade too thin...
Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller - featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur...
Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller -featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur...
Butterfield 8 (MGM) as a novel by John O'Hara was a crude but affecting tart's tragedy. As a film, it has been turned into a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller...
...color line (Pinky). Since setting up as an independent producer, he has made or sponsored films about interracial romance (Island in the Sun), impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made in Paris, Zanuck introduces a daring economy measure: by assigning two roles to each of his principal players (Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman), he gets six actors for the price of three. Unhappily, since there is no real reason in the story why three characters should look like...