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...Leave, No Love (MGM) is a very cheap picture on which no expense was spared. It is a lesson in how to mix a salad that will look attractive to the biggest possible mass audience...
...Hollywood, the dispute between the belligerent Conference of Studio Unions and monopolistic International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes over who would do carpentry and painting on movie sets (TIME, Oct. 7) continued with little sign of settlement. C.S.U. pickets outside MGM, Warner, Universal and Republic lots tried to stop busloads of I.A.T.S.E. workers and imported goons from crashing their lines. In one melee, Deputy Sheriff Dean Stafford, knocked down and kicked unconscious, was rescued by Deputy Gilbert Leslie, who kept pickets at bay with the threat of his drawn revolver. In one brawl nine deputies and seven strikers were hospitalized...
...Arnot Robertson, BBC film critic and prestigious woman novelist (Four Frightened People, Three Came Unarmed), took arms against MGM, which had urged BBC to get rid of her because her criticisms were "... harmful to the film industry." Her counterattack: a suit for "reasonable" damages, and a demand for an unqualified apology...
...Cockeyed Miracle (MGM) and Angel on My Shoulder (Charles R. Rogers-United Artists) illustrate Hollywood's rather alarming drift-which may become an out-&-out trend-toward fantasy. Both pictures are lighthearted efforts to examine, with trick camera work, some of the problems of life-after-death...
...Brother Who Talks to Horses (MGM) stars "Butch" Jenkins, 9, who gets sensationally reliable racing tips from his friend, a well-informed horse...