Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic preview. At Des Moines, nimble Harrison Dillard, a 24-year-old Negro, won his 55th straight race in the 120-yd. high hurdles (equaling his own Drake Relays record in 14.1). At Philadelphia, Michigan's mighty Chuck Fonville, a 20-year-old Negro, heaved the 16-lb. shot 56 feet (short of his own world's record but a new Penn Relays record...
Berlin Express (RKO Radio), which RKO shot mostly in Germany, is really two movies-one in the background, the other in the foreground. The background is an album of postwar Germany: a series of malignantly beautiful photographs of rubbled cities, taken with a depth of focus that clarifies the fear in every handful of dust. Unfortunately, the view of this film is frequently obstructed by the one in front of it, which has a certain frightful clarity of its own. It concerns an American (Robert Ryan), a Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian who unite to rescue a famous advocate...
...experiment in shooting chunks of Berlin Express abroad was part of the new trend. In addition to such Continental productions,** Hollywood expects to make about twelve A pictures in Britain, several in Mexico (where The Fugitive, The Pearl and Treasure of Sierra Madre were shot last year), and more pictures than ever before "on location" all over...
...rush to get out of Hollywood? There are three reasons: 1) moviegoers (and good moviemakers) are showing revived interest in films shot in real settings; 2) labor and production costs fall off sharply outside the U.S. (some German extras work for as little as two cigarettes a day); 3) in Britain and on the Continent, one of the best ways for U.S. film companies to use their blocked dollar earnings is to shoot movies there, then ship them back to the U.S. for release...
Twelve 0'Clock High! is a "novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe...