Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner Bros, allowed him to equip and run a semi-pro team at Warner's expense. He once owned 25% of the Kansas City Blues, and considered buying the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '30s. His son, Joe L., is president of the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association...
House of Wax (Warner), a remake of the 1933 2-D thriller, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, pictures Vincent Price as an insane sculptor who murders his victims and then immerses them in molten tallow for his waxworks display. At the end, meeting a fate he has richly earned, he falls into a puddle...
...intermittently gripping shocker, House of Wax. utilizes the process known as Warner Phonic sound (multiple sound tracks and speakers) mostly for recording eerie musical effects and the screams of ingenues. The picture was photographed in Natural Vision 3-D (TIME, Dec. 15, 1952), and calls for Polaroid spectacles. Although the Natural Vision is an improvement on that in Bwana Devil, it still becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts...
Trouble Along the Way (Warner) travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along...
...System (Warner) methodically goes through the steps of putting together a crime melodrama. But it has far too little action, is much too flabby and too gabby. The plot: a powerful newspaper publisher (Fay Roope) objects to his daughter (Joan Weldon) associating with Gambling Boss Frank Lovejoy. Things end fairly happily when Gangster Lovejoy, having come to the conclusion that "you can't run a clean sewer," spills all to a crime investigating committee and goes off to prison knowing that Joan will wait...