Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild North (MGM) revives that familiar old figure of fresh-air fiction, the Canadian Mountie (Wendell Corey) who is out to get his man. In this version the quarry is a killer (Stewart Granger) who, as it turns out, has done his shooting in self-defense. On the way back, a wolf pack takes a few bites out of Corey, and Granger ends up by bringing in the Mountie. Also present: a beautiful Indian girl (Cyd Charisse) who is fond of Granger. There are vivid color shots of the snowy north country and several lusty action scenes, but The Wild...
...Ferrer makes a smartly menacing Marquis, and Granger is a fine, swashbuckling figure, although he suggests little of that "gift of laughter" of which Sabatini wrote. Also on hand, in a minor role: Lewis Stone, now 72, who played the villainous Marquis to Ramon Novarro's Scaramouche in MGM's 1923 silent version...
Carbine Williams (MGM) fictionalizes the real-life story of David Marshall Williams (James Stewart), who perfected a revolutionary carbine while serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter. More factual than inspired, Carbine Williams often draws a blank dramatically...
...Rome, the heirs of the late great Enrico Caruso were deeply offended by one of the more successful types of U.S. advertising-the tie-in ad. The offending tie-in involved MGM's The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza (TIME, Aug. 6), and the Coca-Cola Co., sponsors of Tenor Lanza's U.S. radio show. Caruso's son Enrico Jr., 48,* and 28-year-old Grandsons Enrico and Roberto, were "disgusted" with Coke billboard and poster ads ballyhooing the picture. Not that they had anything in particular against Cokes, explained the younger Enrico, but "we Europeans look...
When in Rome (MGM) superimposes one of Hollywood's perdurable plots on the Eternal City: an escaped Leavenworth convict (Paul Douglas) is regenerated by an American priest (Van Johnson) during the 1950 Holy Year in Rome. The picture has several slapsticky cops & robbers chases, some good views of famed Roman churches and some sticky dialogue. Sample: Douglas-"Justice is a blind dame weighing a fish." Johnson-"It's a soul she's weighing." Douglas-"Sole, trout, haddock, what's the difference...