Word: paramount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...academic subculture does influence academic thought, then it also influences the intellectual climate of our time. In a world which turns ever more often to specialists for official visions of reality, it is of paramount importance to know who these specialists are, and how their special experience may limit their vision of life...
...Black Orchid (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) is a sort of Marty-come-lately, inspired by one of the less startling of sociological discoveries: poor people are human. From this premise the moviemakers have deduced the facts of low-budget life as presented in this film: 1) poverty is cute, 2) stupidity is lovable, 3) sentimentality is feeling, 4) hard work never killed anybody, 5) suffering is actually good for people, and 6) anyway, there is always...
...form on the last day. Labeling Western leaders "dealers in blood, merchants of death," he demanded that "generals who think the U.S. would remain invulnerable in the event of another war should come out of their fool's paradise," and grasp that "coexistence is the paramount task of our time." "We shall win," he cried, "but we'll let you live...
...Trap (Paramount) is something a prudent moviegoer will not want to get caught in. It tells the unlikely story of an underworld overlord (Lee J. Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start...
...Geisha Boy (Jerry Lewis; Paramount). Jerry Lewis stands glaring across the body of a sleeping blonde at a white rabbit. Jerry is a butterfingered magician who has all he can do to pull the rabbit out of a hat. How can he conceivably pull the thing out of a sleeping compartment without waking the dame (Marie McDonald) and rousing the rest of the passengers on the flight...