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...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
...Winchester; RKO Radio), based on A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s 1947 novel, can best be described as a northwestern-the story of a grueling, 1,200-mile fur-trading trek up the uncharted...
Sudden Fear (Joseph Kaufman; RKO Radio) finds Joan Crawford in something of a predicament. Her actor-husband (Jack Palance) is trying to murder her by running her down with his convertible on the hilly streets of San Francisco. This homicidal urge, it seems, dates back to the time when Joan, a playwright-heiress, turned him down for the leading part in one of her plays because she felt he was not romantic enough for the role. Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking...
...RKO happily reports that Kong continues to triumph over prudery...
Inspired by King Kong's phenomenal success in the Middle West (already grossing at 2 ½ times the rate of a normal A picture), RKO will launch the picture all over the U.S. and in Canada before school starts in the fall...