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Robert Ryan, Ernest Brognine, and John Ericson run the more conventional outlaw gamut, from ruthless leader to respectively brutal and sensitive followers. As the garrulous doctor and the besotted law officers, Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger convincingly exhibit the weaknesses which prevent either of them from acting against his criminal neighbors. A near catastrophe to the film's carefully constricted tone occurs when Anne Francis, as fresh and unnatural as a desert mirage, enters the scene. Fortunately, her role is slight and leaves no romantic blemishes...

Author: By Ralph A. Austen, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince," for example, a song was dropped only because beer was mentioned. Sometimes a foreign government directly interfers, as when King Farouk, discomforted with the vivid portrayal of a slovish Nero, put thumbs down on "Quo Vadis." In all, many countries outlaw more American films than they admit, and sometimes pay for a portion of their movie imports with the censorship fees. But Hollywood isn't worried yet, and won't, said one producer, "until they get tired of Technicolor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Madness | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...While Fair Trade pricing is still fairly successful on hundreds of other household items (toothpaste, vitamin pills, jewelry), many merchants question the entire system. Fair Trading has defeated its own purpose, in that it brought great prosperity to the discount houses and other price cutters it was designed to outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAIR TRADE LAWS: On the Way Out? | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Wilson, varsity basketball coach, and Bruce Munro, freshman coach, agreed yesterday that colleges would probably not adopt the professional NBA's 24-second rule. "I think it would be difficult to get the colleges to agree on the 24-second rule because to do so they would have to outlaw the zone defense, and I don't think they're ready to do that," said Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sporting Scene | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...Require non-white servants to leave white-populated areas each night; ¶ Outlaw labor unions with mixed white and non-white membership; ¶ Give police the right to attend private meetings of more than three persons, for purposes of political investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The New Man Speaks | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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