Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover (Paramount) is Jimmy Cagney's 50th. movie, and he proves his durability in the very first reel by walking into a point-blank ambush and emerging with nothing more than a scraped forehead. Since the ambush was a mistake, the chastened townsfolk make Cagney their new sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...
...cold war, the ideal of absolute liberty must inevitably yield to paramount considerations of national security in a number of sensitive areas of American life. A sense of proper balance between the claims of liberty and the demands of security is especially important in the government's relations with the press and other media of communication. For the public's natural desire for information presents an obvious challenge to government officials with their natural fear that vital national secrets may be delivered unknowingly into the hands of a potential enemy...
...version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play and Paramount hopefully estimates that it will gross as much as $100 million...
DeMille's conception is so grandiose that his movie dominates the entire Paramount studio, occupying twelve of the 18 sound stages. To film the six-minute Red Sea sequence, where the waters part and close as the children of Israel flee the Egyptians, more space was found by breaking down fences and spreading out in the adjoining RKO lot (where razed buildings will eventually be replaced...
Strategic Air Command (Paramount) is one soaring, supercolossal recruiting poster. It tells the story of the men and machines whose job it is to be so good at their job that they will never have to do it. SAC is "the finger," as airmen call it, of the U.S. air arm, the corps that may have to carry The Bomb. The point of this picture: "We're the only thing that's keeping the peace." Though the story seldom gets off the ground, the planes do, and the camera follows them through some of the most majestic scenes...