Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never Too Young (Paramount) stars the overworked team of Martin & Lewis in the same overworked plot. This time. Dean Martin is a teacher at a girls' school and Cutup Jerry Lewis is a barber's apprentice...
...Night Holds Terror (Columbia) may well cut the ground from under the Broadway hit, The Desperate Hours, already bought and filmed by Paramount and scheduled for December release. Like the Broadway play, The Night Holds Terror tells of a family held captive by three gunmen who move into their home and take arrogant possession of their lives, money and possessions. Shot in 18 days on a low budget ($78,000), Night was produced, directed, written and edited by the husband and wife team of Andrew and Virginia Stone. None of the cast has a Hollywood "name"; most of them came...
...Strategic Air Command (Paramount...
...Angels (Paramount) began life three years ago as a modest French farce by Albert Husson; adapted by Playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
...Seven Little Foys (Paramount) has a story as relentlessly cute as an elephant in pinafores. Bob Hope, cast as the late Vaudevillian Eddie Foy, is supposed to be so allergic to women that in years of married life he sees his wife (Milly Vitale) only the minimum amount of time necessary to father seven children. What he does with the time thus saved is never fully explained. According to the movie, his principal nonworking pastimes are playing pool and trading insults with James Cagney, thinly disguised as Hoofer George M. Cohan...