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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause for Alarm! (MGM) rates its exclamation point as the year's first thriller with an honest quota of thrills. It pulls off the old Hitchcock trick of giving commonplace people, events and settings a sinister meaning, and it develops its simple, one-track idea with frightening logic...
Schary's personal productions (Battleground, The Next Voice You Hear) proved box-office hits, and the quality of MGM's whole output improved-though not enough to qualify Schary as "a new Irving Thalberg," as his admirers like to call...
Last week Dore Schary could take satisfaction in an impressive vote of confidence from the board of Loew's Inc., which owns MGM. To give them "greater incentive" and assure their continued service, Schary and five other Loew's executives* got options to buy 250,000 shares of company stock at a pegged price. Schary's option entitles him to 100,000 shares. In return, Production Boss Schary agreed to extend his contract (at $3,846 a week) 2½ years...
Vengeance Valley (MGM) tries, with some success, to picture the West as a real environment in which cowboys put in a solid day's work. Based on a Satevepost serial by Luke Short, the picture looks more closely into human relationships than most westerns. Another point in its favor: perennially boyish Robert Walker appears for a change as the leading heavy...
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) dishes up some farcical leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...