Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Hal Wallis; Paramount...
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Hal Wallis; Paramount). In Hollywood westerns, as in popular legends of every age, the men's men are apt to be just big overgrown boys, and in chasing the villain they are actually running away from the woman. But in this highbrow horse opera, the lill-death-do-us-partnership is in some ways a little too close for comfort...
...show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in the store. The one who went to sleep first lost, but got $10 anyway; the winner received $25. Paramount and M-G-M sent news cameramen and Fox Movietone was reported to be interested in recording the event...
...Lonely Man (Paramount) attempts to show that the Stanislavsky Method of acting is right at home on the range. The hero (Jack Palance), like so many disciples of The Method, is 1,000% sincere; he would not dream of speaking a line until he had lived it right down to the last rivet in his denims. The results are sometimes disconcerting...
...Commandments (Paramount) 2) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (20th Century-Fox) 3) Around the World in 80 Days (Mike Todd; United Artists) 4) The Seven Wonders of the World (Independent) 5) Funny Face (Paramount) 6) Designing Woman (MGM) 7) Cinderella (Disney) 8) The Shrinking Man (Universal) 9) The Tattered Dress (Universal) 10) Twelve Angry Men (United Artists...