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EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...
Stories of Mark Twain (Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde; Caedmon). Richly furrowed and pecan-sweet, Actor Brennan's voice is perfectly flavored for Twain's famed saga of a betting man, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Ex-Child Actor de Wilde, 18, does equally well by a boy's excitement, awe and terror at the shooting of Boggs as seen and told by Huck Finn...
...that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began to write his often criticized "popular-style" music, typified by his raucously percussioned, slickly orchestrated El Salón México and by his scores for films (Of Mice and Men), radio (Saga of the Prairie) and ballet (Billy...
Noel Coward once hymned a certain Poor Uncle Harry, who wanted to be a missionary and who sailed to the South Seas. "The natives," Coward's saga went...
...enough Eastmancolor to make a film that would last for nearly 48 hours. Cut down for the public-Camus was adding final touches in Paris last week-the picture will be titled The Pioneers and released next month. Its plot will have to go some to rival the saga that went into the filming itself...