Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland...
Thus, last week, the film industry recorded its first no-fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think...
...days when the West was young and bandits roamed the land, one great institution held Young America together: the stagecoach. Movie producers through the years have immortalized the long trip west, the peril of Indians and the fear of evil gunmen. Now, in the story of the saga Overland Stage, the saga of the men who made the trip possible has been told...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors: high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...