Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elephant Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien Leigh had a serious nervous breakdown and could not complete the picture...
President Eisenhower has stated that the issue of subversives in Government will not be paramount in next Fall's Congressional elections. If the President is serious, he will welcome a bill just introduced in the Senate by a Democrat. This bill would require quarterly reports to Congress and the public on how many security risks have been separated each month from the Government, and exactly what type of risk they were. A detailed breakdown is vital, for only once in the past has there been an effort to distinguish between so-called "security risks" and actual subversives. Communists, criminals, perverts...
...McCarthy to the inside of the paper . . . suspends the one rule on which a newspaper can be run. That is the pure act of news judgment. Men handling the news have to make the delicate decision each day as to which stories are important, which stories will be of paramount interest to their readers . . . When the man who runs a newspaper decides to 'play down' the news of any individual, he is fooling with the fiercest sort of fire ... In his news columns ... he must observe the single standard: Is it news? McCarthy is news, all over America...
Alaska Seas (Paramount) takes its audience salmon fishing under the Pole, but the cinematic catch is not spectacular. Robert Ryan sells one fishing syndicate out to another. For excitement, there is net raiding by night, skiff jousting on the black northern water with searchlight and rifle. In the end. Ryan loses what he wants (Jan Sterling) and gets what he deserves under an icefall. Sadly, the picture fails in 85 minutes to transmit a satisfying image of the "thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." The icecap of the world, as shown here, is no more awesome than a refrigerator head...
Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...