Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ivory Hunter--Lions and tigers and everything, filmed in technicolor in Africa. At the RKO Memorial...
Lydia Bailey--An adaptation of Kenneth Robert's novel of sex and voodoo in Haiti. Starts Wednesday at the RKO Memorial...
Death, drama, and danger boarded the night express to Los Angeles in Chicago. Close behind them came a handful of unknown actors and a crew of skilled cameramen. All stayed on to the end of the line, and 90 minutes later, RKO walked off the train with a four-star film in its pocket and only a small dent in its poke...
...Wild Heart (Powell-Pressburger; RKO Radio), a picturization of Mary Webb's 1917 novel, Gone to Earth, lets passion spin the plot in turn-of-the-century England. Jennifer Jones is a simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...
Clash by Night (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a vapid variation on the old triangle. Based on Clifford Odets' 1941 play about a Staten Island husband who kills his wife's lover, the picture adds a sunshiny ending, a Pacific-coast fishing-town setting, and some fishy dramatics...