Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mating Season (Paramount) only proves what many a cinemagoer has long suspected: Thelma Ritter can be just as delightful in a big role as in the small ones she played in A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. She is funny, enormously likable and the only genuine article in this highly synthetic comedy. Without her, the picture would founder, and it is hard to think of any other actress now working in movies who could bring off this particular salvage job nearly as well...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...
September Affair (Paramount), a slick product for a ready market, is just what a cynic might arrive at if he tried to imagine how Hollywood would have made Britain's 1946 Brief Encounter. Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never...
Publisher Robert R. McCormick, who likes a good fight as well as his readers, ran Actor Keane's diatribe in a big box below Critic Cassidy's famed "On the Aisle" column. It was more evidence of the fact that Claudia Cassidy is the paramount critic in Chicagoland. Her critical judgment is not infallible, but her reviews can usually make or break any show in Chicago...
...with the Army (Paramount) was not much of a play on Broadway in 1949, but Scripter-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe's film version shows that it could have been much worse. The training-camp farce now serves as a vehicle for Comics Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis and their ragbag of nightclub bits & pieces...