Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to drive lurid 25-cent editions off State newsstande, Representative James D. Doncaster recommended the establishment of a decency review board to screen such literature. The board would have consisted of three members, one of them a clergyman and the other an educate...
...first-class Hitchcock. But disregarding Alfred Hitchcock's former efforts, it is a fine product. In an era of stereotyped movie directing, a film with the director's brand stamped squarely on it provides a refreshing and entertaining change. However, in I Confess. Hitchcock has slightly overplayed his specialty--screen psychoanalysis...
...Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky, currently producing a two-dimension screen biography of Eddie Cantor, concluded: "The movie industry, like a man running to a quack doctor, tried to find a quick cureall: a hypo of 3-D and wide screen (e.g., Cinerama). Both . . . have been around for some time, but the movie industry ignored them because it was feeling great, breaking all records at the box office . . . When the stuff wears off . . . the industry will still have to face and fight its original fear and frustration...
...polarized glasses for viewers), Bwana Devil gives a blurry illusion of depth. Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, onetime radio scriptwriter, uses three-dimension as a trick rather than a creative tool. The moviegoer seems to see a lion leaping into his lap, a native throwing a spear from the screen. But even in 3-D, Bwana Devil is a singularly flat adventure yarn...
First period play was hard and rough, but scoreless before Crimson goalie Brad Richardson injured his hand with about five minutes left. Richardson returned after "repairs," play got rougher, and at 18:45, the Crimson's Scott Cooledge put a screen shot past Yalie goalie Dick Whelan...