Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's prestige and honesty; they, as well as the congressmen who cooperated with them, seem to be more interested in protecting their own profits. Congress would do well to make a little less noise about municipal and state-wide protection rackets and do something about its own version...
...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive version of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel about an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India (TIME, Sept...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...
Moses has one major flaw. By page 505, the waxy, unctuous prose with which Novelist Asch has Simonized the King James version will leave many an eye glazed, not with sanctity but with sleep...
...Jean Renoir, a man of great courage and greater art, has achieved the difficult goal he set for himself. He has produced a beautiful version of "The River" that does justice to the original novel. All the excitement of India (the Ganges River and its banks in this case) is laid before us with magnificent color photography--not like a wooden travelogue but as life, flowing like the river. Likewise we are shown the tense and wonderful and painful world of the adolescent daughter of a jute mill supervisor and two of her friends, all three of whom fall...