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Feinberg is alleged to have taken a room in the Paramount Hotel where the Bradley team was living during its stay in New York, and, posing as a Camden. N. J. businessman, made contact with some of the players...
Feinberg is alleged to have taken a room in the Paramount Hotel where the Bradley team was living during its stay in New York, and, posing as a Camden. N. J. businessman, made contact with some of the players...
Peking Express (Hal Wallis; Paramount) sets out on a topical excursion into Communist China, but quickly turns into a typical train-borne melodrama, running on the same tracks as 1932's Shanghai Express. For all its world-shaking airs and its batting around of ideological platitudes, the picture carries (and is carried by) the standard load of sinister passengers scheming at cross-purposes, and the hero's burp gun has the last word...
Hollywood's troubled moviemakers shuddered again. According to figures reported by Pollster George Gallup, and confirmed by Paramount's own reading of the current box office, customers are going to the movies at the rate of only 53 million a week - more than a third off from 1946's weekly rate of 80 million. The five best draws last month, as they placed in Variety's survey of 24 key cities...
Thus, last week, the film industry recorded its first no-fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think...