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...latest movie version (there have been four U.S. ones) of Tolstoy's lesser masterpiece. It is by far the costliest ($2,000,000) but far from the best.* Sir Alexander Korda and his British bankers provided the money; France's famed Director Julien Duvivier (Pepe Le Moko, Panic) contributed' his talents...
...fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions ran a gas station, the other a bakery. Pepe Castro shined shoes in the Plaza de Armas...
...Pope Brewer wired from Madrid: "An engineer . . . starts at 8,000 pesetas (about $560) a year. It doesn't buy much. 'Can anyone live without buying from the black market?' I asked. 'Nobody,' Engineer Pepe Jimenez answered. ... He thinks the Franco regime has helped the working man." (Timesman Brewer added: "Anyone who thinks otherwise is unlikely to be an engineer...
...five oppositionist deputies in Mexico's new Congress comes from Monterrey. It is no secret that his election was mainly due to the well-organized vote of the independent unions. But Monterrey also hopes for much from President-elect Miguel Alemán. José (Don Pepe) Muguerza, the driving chieftain of the "brewery group," campaigned for him, admires him as an administrator and for that quality most urgently required by the regiomontano, "ability to get things done...
...Pepe" is less dressed up than "Algiers," just as "Forgotten Village" is less finicky than, say, "How Green Was My Valley." It is helped, too, by having a Jean Gabin kind of cast: "Pepe's" characters are not the technically standardized characters of the Hollywood cloth. It's a refreshing change, despite some fast French and a few sloppy English titles...