Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry...
...China sees no end in sight to a decade of Red-instigated fighting. About the best that can be expected is to maintain hope, apply muscle in the right places, make long-range commitments, and retain a dogged determination to keep fighting. Then maybe, just maybe, events and the tide of battle will merge to keep this piece of real estate from Communist control...
Until 1961, Curtis, which publishes the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home, and a children's magazine named Jack and Jill, had rarely had a bad year. Then the tide turned with sickening swiftness, and it began to look as if Curtis might never again have a good season. The company lost $4,200,000 in 1961, a staggering $18.9 million in 1962. Advertising accounts evaporated along with profits, and the word spread that Curtis was mortally...
...NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry...
...Night Tide ebbs when it tries to be too logical, for a legend tends to slacken under close scrutiny down at police headquarters. But solid professionalism is evident everywhere. The music underscores action with fine restraint, and Harrington's serviceable dialogue suits the guileless, understated performances of his principals, Linda Lawson and Dennis Hopper. They are deftly typecast. As the sailor, Hopper talks about Denver, but his Attic profile might have been minted in ancient Greece. And Actress Lawson lushly incarnates the myth of mariner and maid that has haunted men's imaginations for more than...