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...million, was a close second. RKO's The Bells of St. Mary's was the big-money movie ($8 million). Others in the "big ten" (which took in from $5,750,000 to $4,400,000): Leave Her to Heaven, Blue Skies, Road to Utopia, Spellbound, The Green Years, Adventure, Easy to Wed, Notorious, Two Years Before the Mast...
...stars) to other companies, with profit to David, none to U.A. David said that these were his babies and he could do as he liked with them. Besides, the three pictures he had already turned in on his contract (Since You Went Away, I'll be Seeing You, Spellbound) had all grossed more than $5 million each. In fact, said David, he had helped save U.A. from bankruptcy...
...descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi-classical" sellers...
...worst, background music is a cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before...
...courtroom was spellbound during the three hours of his eager confession. Said a British prosecutor: "A fine speech." Said a Russian colonel: "I am amazed." "It's more than I expected from the ugly one," said Keitel (who had tried to place all responsibility on Hitler). Goring (who had boldly admitted his guilt) sneered at Keitel: "At least one more of us has some guts...