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Guns & Spears. At the tiny village of Chitera, Nguru tribesmen defied British authority and deposed their chieftain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYAS ALAND: Violence in the Valley | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

The Charge at Feather River (Warner) is a stereoscopic horse opera that offers a new if not significant development in 3-D movies: at one point, a U.S. cavalry sergeant (Frank Lovejoy) spits right out of the screen at the audience, which happens to be in the line of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

One day the movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Marbles | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

The sentence: seven years hard labor for Kenyatta and his five accomplices. After the sentencing, Judge Thacker was flown to safety in Uganda, a trip of 500 miles over forests and mountains where lurk the Mau Mau, who have sworn to kill him with their burning spears.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Burning Spears | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

An 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Illusion | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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