Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MOVIES, Hollywood's richest untapped hoard for TV, are up for rent or sale. Estimates on the price of the 3,000 pre-1948 movies (including 800 silent films and 1,100 shorts) run as high as $110 million v. the $21 million paid by TV for Warner's backlog...
Died. Robert Mitchell Lindner, 41, topnotch psychologist, author of the case study Rebel Without a Cause, which was adapted last year by Warner Bros, for a film of the same title; of a congenital heart condition; in Baltimore...
...their "horseback corporations" and gone storming after creative control of U.S. film production. They have won an amazing measure of it. Jimmy Stewart made the breach, and Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper and a score of others have followed. Almost two-thirds of film production at Warner and Columbia is now in the hands of independents. Paramount and Fox are yielding to the trend. Even rich old M-G-M had to make concessions; as many as ten independent pictures may be made on the Metro lot in 1956, and in many cases the mouse has nibbled...
Zanuck's departure from 20th Century-Fox, the studio he founded (with veteran Moviemaker Joseph M. Schenck) in 1933, stirred memories of his role in helping to guide Hollywood through adolescence. In the '20s at Warner Bros., Zanuck made so much money for the studio with his silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Jaguar; Warner) The resident devil is Edward G. Robinson, a sort of menace emeritus who is invited by Alan Ladd, a cop he once framed, to retire from the daily grind to a peaceful chair at San Quentin. Eddie replies at some length: "Oh y-a-a-a-a?" Alan lets his right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture...