Word: scenarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Artists deserves credit for this attempt to combine semi-documentary crime data with a plea for grassroot citizen reform. Thanks to imaginative direction and a fastmoving scenario, Captive City ranks well above average as a crime saga. Its moral message is somewhat less impressive...
...rest of the scenario sounded as if it had been written by Mack Sennett. At the main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning...
...film will be directed by David G. Hays '51, with Bertram P. Karon '52 acting as associate director. The scenario has not yet been selected, but will be announced early in January. Preliminary casting for roles in the picture will begin at 7 p.m. tonight in Phillips Brooks House...
...smashing of such precedents, a mere Peronista party nomination (to be had at the crooking of a finger) was not enough. The nomination had to appear to be a reluctant surrender to the irresistible popular will. Huge crowds and tremendous noises were required. Therefore the rally. The scenario called for the mob to shout for Perón & Perón until all Argentina had heard well. After that, the Peróns' decision-and a great moment for the onetime actress who is now the most powerful woman in the Americas...
...ahead of the Germans, he made his way to the U.S. Between a wartime job as an OWI broadcaster and stints on the stage in New York and Chicago, he learned enough English to get character roles in Hollywood. With German-born Scripter Arnold Phillips, he prepared the Pickup scenario from a Czech novel, then trudged around to independent producers trying to sell it. "They all said 'fine,' but they all wanted to rewrite it." So Haas put up his life savings ($20,000), borrowed money from friends and shot the picture himself in ten days last March...