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...which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration and color fidelity. CBS, Philco, Du Mont, Paramount and others are working on tri-color receiver tubes of their own design. None of them has yet been proved in field tests...
Copper Canyon (Paramount) is a milestone of mediocrity in Hollywood's current stampede to make Technicolored westerns pegged on the Civil War (see below). Neither good, bad nor indifferent to any standard device of horse opera, the picture makes a feeble stab at novelty by casting Hedy Lamarr and Ray Milland- both with the wrong accents-as a saloon queen and a Confederate ex-colonel...
Confederate Freebooter William Clarke Quantrill will raid again-and again & again-in Kansas Raiders (Universal-International), The Great Missouri Raid (Nat Holt), Quantrill's Raiders (Paramount). Confederate veterans are .due to turn up in the postbellum Wild West as, among other things, bandits (RKO's Best of the Bad Men) and railroad builders (Columbia's Santa Fe). In Nat Holt's Warpath, the formula gets a bold switch: a Civil War veteran (Edmond O'Brien) goes west, all right, but he's a Yankee...
...Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in a nightclub and renews an old romance with Hoofer Astaire. Boy loses girl not once but twice, the child is seized or kidnaped three times, and the story is cluttered with what seems to be all the supporting players on the Paramount...
...Drama of the Year: Paramount's Sunset Boulevard...