Word: ruthlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beautiful (MGM) are a gaudy assortment of film folk in a movie about the movies. There is a ruthless Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), who is bad; an alcoholic actress (Lana Turner), who is beautiful; a hard-working director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer Prizewinning author (Dick Powell), who are neither bad nor beautiful...
Take a pioneer of the movie industry (nickelodeon vintage) and take him seriously. Shadow him through the eyes of his only son as he makes a ruthless, razzle-dazzle climb from two reels and a crank in a primitive lower Manhattan studio to control of a lavish Hollywood lot. March an army of extras in slow motion through the lives of father & son featuring such types as deep, silent directors (genius division), mean old financiers with moist-eyed granddaughters, fading stars, grasping agents, gossip columnists, and other native life of the celluloid jungle. Dub in a score of documentary asides...
...Harvard Gentlemen who defeated Davidson (35-26) Saturday were anything but that. . . . Despite all you hear about the ultra-ultra atmosphere of the Ivy League circuit, those Crimson characters were the meanest, roughest, most ruthless athletes you could locate outside a lumberjack's free-for-all. . . . The Southern Conference's most scandalous operators of the Flying Fist & the Uplifted Knee are creampuffs compared to Harvard. Charlotee News...
...human, of its theme. A pioneer aviation magnate (played with consummate craft by Ralph Richardson) is dedicated to penetrating the sound barrier. Before his "evil vision" is vindicated, his son (Denholm Elliott) and his son-in-law (Nigel Patrick) die at the controls of their planes, and the ruthless magnate himself is revealed to be a very lonely and human individual...
...past congresses of the Russian Communist Party check off the stages by which an underground gang of amateur conspirators became a world-powerful gang of ruthless professionals...