Word: outgrosses
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...language version of one movie is strictly a moneymaking device. The German market for U.S. films is booming (yearly net for Hollywood: about $5,000,000). But, explains Preminger, pictures with a German-language sound track usually outgross the U.S. products, and one of the reasons is that "the German people would rather have even mediocre pictures in their own tongue than dubbed American pictures." Dubbing German dialogue into The Moon Is Blue would have cost Preminger about $6,000. But he calculated that the cost of importing a small German cast and making the German version (about...