Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower last week asked Congress to extend the draft and to approve a reserve program that included a modified version of universal military training...
...cutting of speeches and shuffling of scenes in these last few minutes is more irritating because a good deal of time has just been wasted on a new version of why the crucial letter was not delivered, and dramatic shots of Romeo's wild ride from Mantua. It is too bad that the weakest aspects of the adaptation cluster at the end of the movie, since they tend to sour what is on the whole a perceptive and tasteful...
...Video Theater did nearly as good a job in its version of the 1950 movie success, Sunset Boulevard. Miriam Hopkins had some big ravaged moments as the faded film star who is convinced that her public still clamors to see her on the screen, but James Daly was altogether too wooden as the young man whose mixed motives of pity and greed turn him into a gigolo and, eventually, a corpse. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas...
Suburban Bliss. Sir Henry is sufficiently tired to realize that his quest is not for glory and the Grail, but for the cozy security of a small castle with a hot-and-cold-running moat. But once he finds his medieval version of suburban bliss and the itinerant ménage à trois settles down, he feels he is committed to being a hero. So off he rides again on his trusty steed, this time to face the greatest foe a man can have: himself. It is a battle that Satirist Nathan does not allow his Every...
...also gives him a chance to write a slanted version of German history from 1918 to 1946, and to heap scorn on the Americans who imprisoned him for some months...