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...Bridges at Toko-ri (Paramount), based on the 1953 novel by James Michener, is one of the best of all the many Hollywood pictures about the Korean war. The movie is a good deal better than the book. And in this case, besides, there is the cold beauty of the jet planes as they flash through black skies like algebraic swans in a futuristic myth...
Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...
...usual, the choices generally did not agree with the top box-office grossers for the year. The five big money pictures so far (in the U.S. and Canada only), reported by Variety: 1) Paramount's White Christmas, which, though it has been playing less than three months, has already grossed $12 million; Columbia's The Caine Mutiny, $8,700,000; Universal's The Glenn Miller Story, $7,000,000; Fox's The Egyptian, $6,000,000; Paramount's Rear Window...
...month in advance. Built by Real Estate Man Hyatt von Dehn, 45, his Hyatt House has a $75-a-day executive suite for business conferences, 69 other rooms at $8 to $14 a day. At New York City's La Guardia Airport, former Hotel Owner (Manhattan's Paramount and Weylin) Louis Ritter, 48, had the first 40-room section of his $2,500,000 La Guardia Hotel (future size: 265 rooms) open for business. Guests found an 85-place restaurant and bar, with TV and air conditioning in all rooms (rates...
...Country Girl (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...