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The Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

The greatest sweepstakes in Law School history ended Wednesday in a third year class in Evidence. Barry Golumb 3L and Joseph S. Dow 3L, the unwitting principals of a three month talking marathon, were neck and neck going into the last two days. Each had answered 38 guestions at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golumb Cops Law Marathon, Dow Gives Way on Final Day | 5/22/1951 | See Source »

The Magnet [J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is a slow, pleasant British comedy that examines the mind of a ten-year-old boy. Like the boy in The Fallen Idol, The Magnet's hero (William Fox) is the victim of his childishly dramatized interpretation of overheard conversations and the mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also an unwitting plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME, Aug. 14).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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