Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John (Paramount) casts Robert Walker as a U.S. Government employee who is also a Communist Party member. Robert associates with "highbrow professors" and has rather vague political arguments with his American Legionnaire father (Dean Jagger), but his mother (Helen Hayes) adores and defends him. When she accidentally discovers a key in Robert's pocket that leads to the apartment of a suspected Communist girl spy, she decides to cooperate with FBI Man Van Heflin in bringing her son to justice. At that point, Robert, about to fly to Lisbon, has an abrupt change of political heart. While trying...
Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...
...Best direction: George Stevens, for A Place in the Sun (Paramount...
Something to Live For (Paramount) casts Ray Milland as a reformed alcoholic who might be having a hangover from his Lost Weekend. An advertising man who has not touched liquor in 14 months, Milland is toying with the idea of just one nip. A duty call from an organization something like Alcoholics Anonymous sends him to the aid of promising Actress Joan Fontaine, who has taken to the bottle because she is afraid of facing a Broadway opening night. Milland's interest in her progresses, of course, from the clinical to the romantic. But since he is happily married...
Meet Danny Wilson is pleasant when it gives Frankie the stage or when it sticks closest to his own story, as in a documentary-like scene of a teen-age audience swooning and squealing at Manhattan's Paramount Theater. But the pleasure drains away in a trite love story involving a nightclub singer (Shelley Winters), and a silly plot leading to a gun battle between Frankie and a gangster in an empty baseball park at night...