Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Island in the Sky (Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible...
Studebaker ran into more than its share of troubles with its radically new cars this year. While advance demand was big, production was stalled when Studebaker found flaws in its body stampings, took months to correct them. Then the Borg-Warner strike cut off Studebaker's supply of standard transmissions. For ten weeks, Studebaker had only automatic transmissions, which went into its higher-priced cars. By the time the company could build cars in quantity in early July, many of the prospective buyers had tired of waiting and bought other makes...
Rolled Razor. Warner-Hudnut, Inc. of Manhattan began market-testing a new safety razor containing 32 blades in the form of a 40-in. ribbon of thin steel wound about a reel. As a blade becomes dull it is wound onto another roller and a new one slides into place. Price...
...Beggar's Opera (Warner) brings John Gay's renowned, raffish 18th century opera to the screen in English for the first time.* In the role of the highwayman Macheath, Shakespearean Actor Laurence Olivier also sings on the screen for the first time, in an agreeable, light baritone, and makes a fine, swashbuckling badman...
Plunder of the Sun (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) is an oldtime movie chase story played against a background of ancient Zapotec ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with...