Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even on a Monday enough viewers stayed up past midnight to give an impressive 21.1 to Ronald Colman and Greer Garson in Ran dom Harvest. In Chicago WBKB leaped from fourth to first place by launching 740 RKO movies with a showing of Rosalind Russell in The Velvet Touch, and two other stations rushed in fresh Hollywood features of their own. Philadelphia's WFIL led its field late at night by dipping into a vault newly stocked by RKO, M-G-M and 20th Century...
This doublebill at the RKO Keith might lead one to believe that Hollywood is still bitter about what the North did to the South in the Civil War. In mistitled Love Me Tender, a new star from Tennesse, Elvis Presley, who looks like a cross between Estes Kefauver and Rudolph Valentino, takes up the battle for the rebs and symbolizes his resentment in several awkward gesticulations with his thighs...
Death of a Scoundrel (RKO Radio) often looks suspiciously like a take-off on the bawdy life and gaudy death of Serge Rubinstein. The hero is a fellow named Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders), a bouncy Czech who seems to have spent his early years less on the level than under the rose. At any rate, as the camera finds him, Sanders is enthusiastically engaged in selling his own brother to the secret police in return for a passage to America. Arrived in New York, he steals a rich man's wallet from the tramp (Yvonne de Carlo) who stole...
Back in Hollywood, the producer discovered that the Paramount lot (35 acres) was not big enough to contain his other big scene: the crossing of the Red Sea. He therefore demolished the intervening buildings, joined Paramount and RKO territory, built a 200,000 cubic-foot swimming pool, installed hydraulic equipment that could deluge the area with 360.000 gallons of water in two minutes flat. This scene alone cost more than a million dollars and took 18 months to shoot...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...