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Cease Fire (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a picture made to show what happens at the front on a day when the communiqué says that nothing happened, proves that the communiqué pretty much tells the truth. A patrol goes out and wanders around most of a day without meeting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Scared Stiff (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a shrill blend of spooks and slapstick set on a mysterious tropical island. While trying to help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

From now on, the U.S. Weather Bureau will distinguish Atlantic hurricanes by girls' names, as the Air Force and Navy have been doing for years in the Pacific. The first big tropical blow each season will be called Alice. Then will come Barbara, Carol, Dolly, etc. The average number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Alice to Wallis | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

By the Rule Book. In Toronto, Roy Wallis complained to police that, although he was uninjured when his automobile crashed into a pole, two solicitous bystanders insisted on applying first aid, dragged him out of the car, twisted his arm to make him lie down on the cold pavement.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

More impressive than the obvious import of Miss Booth to play Lola is Hal Wallis' choice of Daniel Mann, the director of Sheba on Broadway, to film the screen version. Mann makes William Inge's portrait of frustration and wasted lives even more harrowing on film than it was on...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Come Back Little Sheba | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

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