Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Softcover, tough-guy Author Mickey (My Gun Is Quick) Spillane was all set for his acting debut as co-star with Lion Trainer Clyde Beatty of the 3-D film Man-Killer. His main screen assets: a squint, a crew cut, 5 ft. 8 in. of muscles. Spillane, in the manner of his hero, gore-spilling Private Eye Mike Hammer, will play a detective in hot pursuit of a homicidal maniac...
...shown that he will go to just about any lengths to get what he wants. After four conferences with Rhee. Walter Robertson had made no progress whatsoever, despite optimistic statements put out by Rhee's forces. A U.S. official said privately: "Rhee has thrown up a great smoke screen of words, often accompanied by a studied show of amicability. But his position has not altered in the slightest...
...Moon Is Blue (Preminger-Herbert; United Artists) brings the 1951 Broadway comedy hit about sex and virtue to the screen as a pleasant, entertaining movie that is notable chiefly for the way it frankly uses, for the first time on the screen, such words as "pregnant," "seduction," "virgin" and "mistress...
...outspoken freshness. They point out, further, that the play has run all over the U.S. without raising any moral protests, and that any number of current movies are far more tawdry, sensual and suggestive. The Moon Is Blue controversy may well turn out to be a major test of screen censorship. But whatever the outcome, it appears certain that all the hullabaloo will help The Moon Is Blue wind up in the black at the box office...
Except for a couple of quick, vivid shots the Martians are not seen on the screen. But the story is occasionally told from the Martian point of view, as seen through a shimmering, eyelike bubble of film. Director Jack Arnold has made good use .of the barren brooding desert expanses with their lonely, unreal look of another world, and the picture is well acted, particularly by Richard Carlson as a mystically inclined astronomer. As was more or less inevitable, the picture is in 3-D, but the extra dimension does not add much to the drama. It is the least...