Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blitzstein's concert-version adaptation of the late Kirt Weill's "Threepenny Opera" will receive a premiere performance on Saturday evening, June...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (Jose Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...
...Fighter (Alex Gottlieb; United Artists) is a fairly flabby film version of Jack London's 1911 story, The Mexican, about a peon who stands up under a brutal beating in an American prize ring so that he can buy guns for the Mexican revolution with the winner-take-all purse...
...Wild North (MGM) revives that familiar old figure of fresh-air fiction, the Canadian Mountie (Wendell Corey) who is out to get his man. In this version the quarry is a killer (Stewart Granger) who, as it turns out, has done his shooting in self-defense. On the way back, a wolf pack takes a few bites out of Corey, and Granger ends up by bringing in the Mountie. Also present: a beautiful Indian girl (Cyd Charisse) who is fond of Granger. There are vivid color shots of the snowy north country and several lusty action scenes, but The Wild...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...