Word: monogramed
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Suspense (Monogram) has trouble deciding whether it is a murder thriller or an ice-skating extravaganza. It is chiefly notable as the first $1,000,000 production ever made by Monogram, a studio that normally specializes on low-budget quickies...
...Palooka, Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...
Oldtime traders found it hard to believe that Hunt had sold out. In 20 years of eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor...
...midsummer doldrums, with most of the A-budget productions as drab as the overcast sky and as treacly as its sunlight, some brisk, modest B pictures are brightening the outlook considerably. Last spring's rapid-fire Dillinger (Monogram), made at a cost of $145,000, has already grossed $900,000. Last fall's vivid When Strangers Marry (Monogram) is less of a moneymaker but one of the best of the Bs. By last week, cinemaddicts were talking up two more good new ones...
...acts out his scripts for the brothers, whose respect for his literacy is reverent; and he doesn't even have to do that for Monogram, which merely distributes for him. It is a very pretty pitch indeed, as Yordan will explain: "In the small-picture field there is a fixed gross, that is, you can almost tell how much you're going to make to a penny. I plan to use it as an experimental theater...