Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thief (Harry Popkin; United Artists) takes its inspiration from the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words: it is a sound film in which no one ever speaks. The movie manages to get along quite well without dialogue because it is an uncomplicated chase thriller told with the camera on a simple physical and psychological level. The thief is a nuclear physicist (Ray Milland) employed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills...
...Second Woman (Harry Popkin; United Artists) improves on the old Hollywood custom of modeling a movie after a hit. The picture apes not one model but at least three. Its title trades on The Third Man, while most of its twists come straight out of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Spellbound...
...plot of this new Popkin Production is fantastically complicated. It concerns a notary public who has unwittingly signed a bill of sale for some stolen merchandise, an innocent man who tries to clear himself by finding the bill and the notary, and the thief. The innocent is murdered and the notary poisoned. In the last few hours of the notary's life a search for the poisoner ensues; it is here that the film finds its motif...
Champagne for Caesar (Harry Popkin; United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture winds up looking even sillier...
Ronald Colman is Mr. Popkin's knight on white horse, armed with an inexhaustible supply of knowledge. After watching a program called "Masquerade For Money," Colman decides that the level of intelligence encouraged by this program is the fore-runner of intellectual degeneration, and slowly forms a plan to kill the program...