Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand of the American Catholics, because films from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy and France are considerably more frank about the darker side of life and less dogmatic about "sin" always leading to a bad end, the Legion of Decency's major objection to Baby Doll. In fact, Warner Brothers look to foreign showings of the film for a large part of its revenue...
...Regis Paper Co. and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.; profits were also down for Crown Zellerbach Corp. (66? a share v. 1956's 86?), Scott Paper Co. (66? v. 72?) and Allied Paper Corp. (90? v. $2.30). High costs of labor and materials hurt Crane Co., Borg-Warner Corp., Carborundum Co., and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp...
Aside from this The Bachelor Party is succesful and well worth seeing. Charley, the young man (Don Murray), and his wife (Pat Smith) are both properly ordinary looking and, their intent being to act as naturally and untheatrically as possible, do very well. Jack Warner is just right in another of his Dodger fan roles and E.G. Marshall gives a good performance, if he is a little too intent on stripping bare his character for all to see. Carolyn Jones gives the best performance as the fast and intellectually chic Villager who is so wretched that she doesn't know...
...Cobb is a self-made man from the lower East Side with a neurotic desire to see the boy convicted because of his own son's ingratitude, and Ed Begley plays a bigoted garage owner, his vote founded on an unfounded distinction between himself and his slum clientele. Jack Warner is a cold and prim broker, a man used to having his opinions deferred to, and E. G. Marshall, as the quick-minded old widower, is the only man to give credence to the young architect Fonda's "reasonable doubt" at first...
...characterizations are handled extremely well--easily identifiable types with enough individuality to be convincing. Cobb perhaps is a little too obvious about his character's psychological condition, especially when he destroys his son's photograph in a moment of aberration, but Begley and Warner are especially good. Fonda himself has a role much more difficult than any other: the attitudes and attentions of all the jurors center on him, and he must handle each in a different way. His involvement is complicated by his own uncertainty about the boy's innocence. He fights his verbal and psychological battles with great...