Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night into Morning (MGM) unintentionally serves as a fine argument for the escapist entertainment that Hollywood makes best. It is a grim, dolorous movie about a college English professor (Ray Milland) who loses his wife and child in an explosion and searches for a way to go on living without them. He broods endlessly over the tragedy, finds no solace either in drink or in the advances of a tart (Jean Hagen), finally is brought to face life again through the efforts of an understanding friend (Nancy Davis), whose concern over him almost alienates her fiance (John Hodiak...
...Hollywood's production giants, was getting ready to resign from the studio he had helped to found 27 years ago. It was no secret that Production Boss Dore Schary's cost-cutting regime was just what the big brass at Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company) wanted, that Mayer was becoming a stranger in his own house. Last week the Hollywood Reporter's Bill Feeder tried an old newsman's stunt. He telephoned Mayer to express his concern over the expected departure and Mayer admitted that he was thinking of a change...
...Christian martyrs in Constantine's Rome. Made in Italy three years ago with French and Italian actors romping toga-clad through elaborate sets populated by 7,000 extras, the movie has been dubbed into English and shrewdly released to steal the thunder of such forthcoming spectacles as MGM's Quo Vadis and 20th Century-Fox's David and Bathsheba...
...MGM) is a Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Broke! (MGM) adds another laurel to one of the most decorated U.S. combat units of World War II,* the Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Treated at first with taunts and suspicion, rankled by the knowledge that their families were herded into resettlement camps, the Nisei proved themselves both loyal Americans and superb fighting...