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...Third Man (Selznick Releasing Organization...
...Third Man (Sir Alexander Korda; David O. Selznick) is already a smash hit in Britain, where most critics hailed it as the best movie of 1949. U.S. moviegoers are likely to find it one of the best of 1950. Like The Fallen Idol, by the same brilliant British team-Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene-it adds an extra depth of character insight and a new texture of pictorial eloquence to the kind of spellbinding thriller that made Alfred Hitchcock famous...
...after that? Hollywood still beckoned, and millions of fans yearned. No enterprising cinemogul had yet announced plans to sign up little Yasmin (as David O. Selznick once bid for the services of Shirley Temple's baby daughter). But thus far, the courtship-wedding-confinement-birth script from true life had been a howling romantic success...
...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...
When the current nine-week season opened in July (with Mildred Natwick, John Emery and Tamara Geva in Blithe Spirit), the Playhouse still owed $9,500 on the Selznick loan, but had rolled up an advance ticket sale...