Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood lost no time getting into the Korean war. Within 48 hours, Republic Pictures released a one-reel The Battle for Korea rushed 3,000 prints out to U.S. exhibitors. Less enterprising studios hastily staked claims to likely-looking titles. Last week the Motion Picture Association of America reported that its lists of registered titles already include: Korea, South Korea, Crisis in Korea, The 38th Parallel, 38° Parallel, North of the 38th Parallel, Formosa, Indo-China...
...Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object of ridicule in some quarters and an envied example in others...
Whirlpool (20th Century-Fox). "WARNING!" cry the ads for this picture. "If you are easily hypnotized, don't see it alone." The copywriter must have confused the hypnotic with the soporific. As the latest case history in five-reel psychiatry, with some Mesmer thrown in, the movie is a Freudian slip...