Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holman's "boys" were all there, ducking under the doorway as they entered--Ed Warner, Most Valuable Player in the N.I.T. Ed Roman, one of the game's most versatile tall men, iron-man guards Floyd Lane and Al Roth, and the players who fill out the weaker fifth position. They were looking a little self-conscious in identical chocolate-brown traveling suits which a manager explained, "helps us to keep them together...
...Beavers are never self-conscious on the court, and yet they own a mediocre nine-and-five record. Every opponent has been pointing for a win over the Grand Slammers; Holman is inclined to put a lesser emphasis on his graduation losses and the injuries that have plagued Warner and Roman this season. "There are no individuals," he Insists. "You have to use five...
...Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well aware that shooting a bobby simply isn't done, they help the police...
Operation Pacific (Warner) carries two forms of box-office insurance: a war subject (see below) and popular He-Man John Wayne. It is the kind of movie that needs all the insurance it can get. Writer-Director George Waggner has grafted a tiresome love v. duty romance on to the well-tried story of U.S. submarine exploits...
Furthermore, the acting is not up to the usual English standards. Jimmy Hanley plays the rookie with a completely blank expression. Dirk Bogarde portrays the mean and always-villainous killer with a similar lack of imagination. Jack warner acts the old Bobby very well; it was too bad he had to be the corpse...