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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bright Victory (Universal-International) tries earnestly to picture the struggles of a wounded World War II veteran faced with a life of blindness. In its treatment as well as its subject, the film invites, and suffers from, comparison with last year's The Men, which probed the postwar plight of paraplegic veterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Bonn Doing Well. All is not strawberries & cream, however. Western Germany's prosperity still rests on a bedrock of $400 million annual U.S. aid. The housing shortage is still acute, and so is the economic plight of the war victims. In a camp, just beyond Bonn itself, 50 bombed-out families live like animals. Across the land, there are well over a million people unemployed. Conspicuous consumption by the wealthy (encouraged by a tax system that allows huge exemptions for "business expenses") makes for glaring contrasts with poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: GERMANY: UP FROM THE ASHES | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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