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...Last Hunt (MGM) is a bloodstained western that demonstrates two ways to shoot buffalo: 1) slaveringly, as villainous Hunter Robert Taylor does it, or 2) mincingly, like noble-souled Hunter...
...year would be up, he predicted-more than enough to cover the 25? quarterly dividend. Loew's hopes to put out better movies, he said, and is also studying TV possibilities. M-G-M has 1,000 sound features, plus another 1,100 sound shorts adaptable to TV; MGM's current TV show, M-G-M Parade, is al ready "a good income producer." When it came to a vote on Loew's 13-man slate of directors, the management candidates won easily, polling more than 4,300,000 shares of the total 5,142,615 shares...
...Asphalt Jungle cannot quite be considered a period piece because it hasn't been left amoulding in the MGM morgue long enough. Its interest lies, rather, as an antecedent to the Dragnet-type thriller. The tender first steps of that animal are unsteady and grouping; but as progenitor of a brood of offspring, its technical effects are interesting to watch in evolution...
...Life (MGM) is what the wise guys are calling "a bow-wow wow" of a motion picture. Based on The Bar Sinister, a famous dog story by Richard Harding Davis, it is in fact as nice to have around as any bright young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts...
...Loew's Inc., which runs MGM, announced that its earnings for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1955 will be lower than the $6,577,311 it made for the 1954 period. The dip in earnings is largely the result of two M-G-M box-office flops: The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner, which cost $3,000,000 and to date has grossed $2,200,000 in the U.S., and Jupiter's Darting, with Esther Williams, which cost $3,000,000 and has recouped only...