Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday's action, Eliot and Dudley split. Eliot trounced the Commuters' tackle squad 26-0. The Commuters rallied, however, to beat the Elephants 26-12 in a touch league game. Bob Minichello, Bill Corey, Dixie Shocker, and Pete Watson's fine punting sparked the Dudley win. Captain Dan Steiner and Renny Little led the Elephants...
Even in a day when the traitor has become a headline staple, the name of Benedict Arnold remains the U.S.'s symbol of ultimate treachery. His was the classic sellout, the shocker that reduced a national hero to a despised knave. Yet there are still those ready to defend him as a maligned soldier who was goaded into villainy, and schoolteachers in his home state of Connecticut have complained that it becomes increasingly difficult to present him as a traitor...
...Came from Outer Space (Universal-International) is one of those modestly budgeted, neatly tooled little thrillers that Hollywood turns out without fanfare from time to time. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, it is a crisp combination of shocker and sociological comment. It tells of a Martian space ship that lands in the Arizona desert and of the chaos the visitors from outer space cause before they depart...
...Austria, the board of film reviewers in Graz banned, to children under 16, Metroscopix, a prewar, Hollywood-made 3-D shocker. The picture, a short containing horror sequences, the board ruled, would cause "emotional and nervous shock to young people, and thereby constitutionally endanger their health." M-G-M will take the case to the Austrian constitutional court, argue that the censors' job is to protect youth against immorality, not to protect their nerves...
...intermittently gripping shocker, House of Wax. utilizes the process known as Warner Phonic sound (multiple sound tracks and speakers) mostly for recording eerie musical effects and the screams of ingenues. The picture was photographed in Natural Vision 3-D (TIME, Dec. 15, 1952), and calls for Polaroid spectacles. Although the Natural Vision is an improvement on that in Bwana Devil, it still becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts...