Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...
...their 12,200 workers at Willow Run, where the C-119 Boxcars were made on license from Fairchild Engine & Aircraft, their original designer. Auto production (250 cars a day) had already been halted in the plant a few days earlier, when a strike at Borg-Warner shut off K-F's supply of automatic transmissions and forced a layoff 'of 2,200 men. At week's end, there were only 1,000 K-F workers left, finishing up the last Boxcars and making auto parts for other manufacturers...
...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) has a climactic sequence that seems to have been made to order for 3-D: a prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed...
Fully Automatic. The Chrysler Corp. announced that fully automatic transmissions will be standard equipment on all new Chrysler Imperials and Crown Imperials. Similar to the Borg-Warner type used by Ford, the new transmission will probably be used later on Dodge, De Soto and Plymouth cars. Price as optional equipment: approximately...
Ways and Means is a fairly long-winded farce about a couple of carefree, down-at-heel professional guests and an imperturbable burglar on the Côote d'Azur. Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and Jack Warner, in a trio of spry performances, play it to the hilt...