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...Producer Walter Wanger, an old hand at making movies about politics (e.g., Washington Merry-Go-Round, The President Vanishes), announced that he will base a production on the latest (September, 1954) book by Oregon's Democratic Senator-elect Richard L. Neuberger. The tome: Adventures in Politics, a frolicsome autobiography...
...WALTER WANGER HOLLYWOOD...
...film; the film has apparently been written to fit his score. The compliment is a dubious one. Allegedly based on some 19th century picaresques about Persia by Author James Morier, Hajji Baba is all too obviously based on nothing but some old Bagdad sets that Producer Walter Wanger found around Hollywood. From there out it's silks of Ind. accents of Chi. on with the swarth and out with the nautch. A heavy navel bombardment in rich color is followed by dialogue ("Allah be praised!") and swarms of half-naked warrior women who kill their male captives with...
...sheer propaganda, however, producer Walter Wanger has a masterpiece. The photography of Folsom's long, bare corridors creates an oppressive mood which is seldom relieved, and the contrast between the prison's cold mechanical routine and the sympathetic plight of its convicts is unusually effective. Wanger needed no stars to simulate these convicts, and except for Neville Brant as the chief conspirator, has none. Most of the cast has been supplied by Folsom's good-behavior inmates, whose rioting possesses a good deal of fervor and realism...
...Producer Wanger's interest in prison reform grew out of personal experience: in 1952 he served 98 days of a four-month sentence in Los Angeles County Honor Farm for shooting an actor's agent whom Wanger suspected of having an unprofessional interest in Mrs. Wanger (Cinemactress Joan Bennett). His life in prison jolted him into a strong, new social consciousness...