Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most popular of all television stars," cried Walter Winchell on his Sunday night broadcast, "[has been] confronted with her membership in the Communist Party." Winchell named no names. But five days later California's Congressman Donald L. Jackson told the tale-solely, as he explained it, to quash "unfounded rumors." Lucille Ball, redheaded star of I Love Lucy and television's current queen of queens, had admitted under oath to having registered as a Communist in a Los Angeles election back...
...Tell Tale Heart (U.P.A.) is a seven-minute tour of a madman's mind. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's chilling short story, powerfully narrated in a voice just this side of frenzy by Actor James Mason, the film is one of the first attempts to use the animated cartoon to tell a psychological horror tale. Other cartoon shorts, such as Disney's Donald Duck, Metro's Tom & Jerry, and particularly U.P.A.'s own Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, have accustomed moviegoers to a skillful distortion of reality and a triumph of line over...
...born Steve Bosustow founded United Productions of America seven years ago after being fired by Walt Disney. In his own company, he operates without time clocks and gives credit where credit is due. Director Ted Parmelee and Art Designer Paul Julian get most of the bows for The Tell Tale Heart, just as other U.P.A. production teams are accorded credit...
SURREALISTIC POLICEMEN (opposite) stand over body of murdered man in movie version of The Tell Tale Heart...
...months have pulled the blanket of history over their heads and burrowed in the warm, dark bed of the past. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey was a skillfully done period piece about England under Henry VIII. In The Golden Hand, Edith Simon told a leisurely tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century...