Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MGM, with 13 of the top 60 moneymakers, collected the most rental ($47,250,000). Next in line were Paramount (twelve pictures at $44,650,000), 20th Century-Fox (ten pictures at $35 million), RKO (eight pictures at $30 million...
Lady in the Lake (MGM) is an amusing cops-&-killer chase, based on Raymond Chandler's hard-breathing novel. As both director and star, ex-Commander Robert Montgomery plays Chandler's famed private detective, amoral Phillip Marlowe,* and also polishes off his first major directing job with dash and considerable imagination...
Credit for the imaginative experiment must be divided equally between Montgomery (who has been nagging his studio for years to let him try it) and wealthy, conservative MGM, which did all right for itself at the 1946 box office (see above) by just sticking to big, safe production techniques and big, safe stars...
...Secret Heart (MGM) offers psychiatry with a dash of Debussy-a mixture that moviegoers go for this season...
...Still unreleased contenders for 1946 honors: MGM's The Yearling, David O. Selznick's Duel...