Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of the old bill declares hazily that presidents of universities and college should find and expell Communists and Communist sympathizers. There is no mention of the two inevitable difficulties--what constitutes a Red or a Pink, and, that decided, how to find...
...though eager to remind you of its versatility, the camera occasionally wanders out of the kitchen where the action takes place, into other rooms or into the garden, but its travels add nothing to the play. The film version, however, brings the play two dividends: notable music by Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script...
...like TIME'S, it will find Hood one of its most persistent and hard-working recruits. Hood decided a long time ago that he wanted to work for TIME. Shortly before his graduation from a Toronto high school, he wrote to ask for a job, in his own version of TIME-ese: "Last week, as it must to some, realization came to Toronto's Alex B. Hood that university would be financially impossible. Young (17) Hood's next best bet: to go to New York and work for TIME...
...Little World of Don Camillo. France's Fernandel as a battling parish priest and Italy's Gino Cervi as a Communist mayor in a film version of the bestselling novel (TIME...
Come Back, Little Sheba. Burt Lancaster as a reformed drunk and Shirley Booth as his slatternly wife in an impressive film version of William Inge's Broadway play (TIME...