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Another disappointing performance is contributed by Susan Strasberg. Although the young actress is in the process of winning a large reputation for her work on Broadway, in the film she manages to do little more than sulk when she is called upon to portray a rather unattractive adolescent. Kim Novak...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Picnic | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

A handsome British major of 34 is decorated with the coveted George Medal for his bravery in breaking up an ambush of terrorists. But Major Brian Coombe has killed a man and he is not proud. "My driver was killed by one of them and it was my duty to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Too Much Death | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Still, Captain Dean and a handful of his men refuse to quit. They pull some of the flotsam from the sea and make a pathetic shelter. They find that ice ripped from boulders will do for water, that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ship Is Wrecked | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Carefully sifting the evidence he had against Clauberg, Van Dam decided that murder might be hard to prove, and he wanted to be sure. Van Dam, a lawyer, finally addressed a letter to the public prosecutor at Kiel, charging only that Clauberg had "caused severe bodily harm" to Jewish women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Return of the Pig | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Queen Bee (Columbia) creaks along like a slow train through Arkansas. The huffing-puffing locomotive is Joan Crawford, a siren from Chicago, and what she does to the proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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