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...film, a first-time effort by three ex-admen, begins with a loving shot of wharfs, fishing shacks and the sounding sea-the sort of vista once sketched avidly by artists and now appreciated chiefly by retired couples who tour Cape Cod in late September. The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweater and combat boots. He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below...
Jungle Cat (Buena Vista) is another of Walt Disney's magnificently photographed and sometimes irritatingly edited True-Life Adventures, a series designed to show that the works of nature are almost as manifold as those of the California animator. This time the area filmed by Disney's camera-equipped naturalists (James R. Simon, Lloyd Beebe and the late Hugh Wilmar) is the Amazon rain forest, a jungle so nearly impenetrable that only its major rivers have been named. The region's thousands of species of plants grow in a steaming tangle, in some places 200 ft. high...
...collects race horses, names them after movie paraphernalia (CinemaScope, Projector I, Vista Vision II). At his Singapore mansion, he keeps rare orchids and tropical fish, plus four man-killing Alsatian hounds to discourage thieves. Lacking some of his brother's more exotic tastes, Run Run likes to mix business with pleasure, recently put up a twelve-story building in downtown Kowloon, with a nightclub on the first floor, offices on the third, living quarters for starlets on the eighth, and a luxury apartment for himself on the ninth...
Pollyanna (Walt Disney; Buena Vista), a novel for nice young ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book...
Kidnapped (Walt Disney; Buena Vista). Robert Louis Stevenson's casual classic was written, he confessed, with "no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid." Walt Disney's movie version may persuade the young gentlemen that Latin homework is a comparative pleasure...