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...Frankie took it all in ferocious earnest. He knew his hour had struck, and he asked Dorsey for a release of contract. Tommy refused, but in the end, in return for a fat piece of Frankie's future, let him go, and Frank was booked into the Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Ulysses (Lux; Paramount) brings to the screen the greatest adventure story of the Western world. Visually, the picture could scarcely be better. The camera's Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Catch a Thief (Paramount). Grace Kelly and Cary Grant are sitting in a a runabout at a secluded spot high above the Technicolored Riviera. Radiant Grace turns to Gary, says: "Do you want a breast or a leg?" Gary locks eyeballs with Grace and after a moment replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Never Too Young (Paramount) stars the overworked team of Martin & Lewis in the same overworked plot. This time. Dean Martin is a teacher at a girls' school and Cutup Jerry Lewis is a barber's apprentice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...Night Holds Terror (Columbia) may well cut the ground from under the Broadway hit, The Desperate Hours, already bought and filmed by Paramount and scheduled for December release. Like the Broadway play, The Night Holds Terror tells of a family held captive by three gunmen who move into their home and take arrogant possession of their lives, money and possessions. Shot in 18 days on a low budget ($78,000), Night was produced, directed, written and edited by the husband and wife team of Andrew and Virginia Stone. None of the cast has a Hollywood "name"; most of them came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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