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...jail for a year, for guys I don't even like any more." Among them: Novelist Budd Schulberg, who, he said, quit the party in a huff after the Reds tore into his What Makes Sammy Run?, Producer Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen, a score of other lesser Hollywood citizens...
...Brave Bulls (Columbia) is Producer-Director Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen's ambitious attempt to put Tom Lea's bestselling 1949 novel on the screen. Visually, the picture is thick with the hot, dusty atmosphere of the bull ring and the Mexican locale in which it nourishes. But beneath its colorful surface, the film is dramatically weak and confused...
While faithfully retelling the story of a matador (Mel Ferrer) who loses his nerve and gets it back again, Producer Rossen upsets the book's delicate balance between the tawdriness and nobility of bullfighting. He succeeds best, if at undue length, in picturing the bull ring much as he showed the prize ring in Body and Soul-as a commercialized racket that feeds its parasites, thrills its fickle crowds and lacerates its heroes in body and spirit. Despite some lip service in dialogue and commentary, he fails to do justice to bullfighting as an art, a code of honor...
...King's Men. Robert Rossen's 1949 Academy Award film about a back woods politico (TIME...
...pleasing the public with pictures that bear the stamp of one talented man trying to please himself. Last week Hollywood noted and approved the trend by giving its Academy Award for the best movie of 1949 to All the King's Men, written, directed and produced by Robert Rossen (TIME, Dec. 5). Also...