Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of the roaring successes--many of them also starring Humphrey Bogart, depended on tight-knit plots that, while fine alone, were garnished by unusual characters and brilliant lines. Beat the Devil rambles through the bare vestige of a plot delighting the audience with clever dialogue and swamping the screen with fantastic characters. Humphrey Bogart, for the most part, plays the same role he has perfected over the years. If he was called Rick, Sam or Harry before, and Billy now, the role hasn't changed; nor should it, since it is what he does best. But authors John Huston...
...Screen writers have made a handy formula for all war films: America's invincible strength. As good moviegoers know, our country has won even those wars in which we actually didn't do too well. And in that misunderstanding during the sixties, if you have seen enough movies, you realize that both sides won. But the scenarists, aware that other countries might also claim impressive win records, have shown us that in wars among foreigners, our friends always win. "Even more impressive, our best friends beat middling acquaintances...
...gunfire are rare on its shows. Webb sometimes produces truly frightening effects (as in The Big Jump, a film in which he struggles with a madman on a high building ledge), but in the most low-keyed of his stories he still lures the viewer by making the television screen a sort of peephole into a grim new world...
...Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated...
...Paramount demonstrated its new entry in the big-screen sweepstakes, VistaVision, to be shown on a screen 1.77 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.55 to 1 for Fox's CinemaScope). Adaptable to standard movie-house projectors, the high-wide process is also handsome; no matter where the moviegoer sits in the theater, the picture is always in focus. Paramount plans to make all its future films in VistaVision. Coming Vista Visions: White Christmas (with Bing Crosby), DeMille's The Ten Commandments...