Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running duel between an American mogul and a canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
While the opposing business methods clash they are amusing, but when the picture tries to reconcile them, showing that everyone is really a brick beneath a seemingly loathsome exterior, the result is dreary. In one especially painful scene, Paul Douglas as the mogul, is almost seduced from the business virtues of ruthless efficiency and unbridled avarice that the British evidently find peculiarly American. When a gentle Scottish lass tells him about the beauties of indolence, the mogul seems about to chuck a princely fortune and sign aboard the Scots boat as cabin...
...company's $3,374,000 capital. Gone, too, was $5,600,000 of the government loan. British Lion had suffered heavy losses on such films as Cry, the Beloved Country and Gilbert and Sullivan. Said Korda, echoing the famous last words of many a onetime Hollywood cine-mogul: "They may not have done so well at the box office, but. . . they were good...
Meanwhile, he waged a long, stubborn, personal war of rebellion at Warner Bros, to escape from one-dimensional gangster roles. During one of his numerous suspensions, he told New York newsmen that Jack Warner was a "creep." On his return the mogul telephoned his actor and sorrowfully took him to task. "Jack." he replied, "you don't even know what I mean by creep." Said Warner: "Yes, I do-I've got a dictionary right before me. It means loathsome, crawling thing." "But Jack," said Bogart, "I spell it with...
Stranger has appeared twice on CBS-TV's Omnibus; the others will be released for TV after their movie runs end. De spite his recovered prosperity. George K. Arthur plans to stick to low-budget short subjects, maintains he is not a full-fledged movie mogul: "After all. I still do advertising. Movies are only my hobby...