Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inspector General (Warner) is a Danny Kaye comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
Today, with his appearance in a picture reckoned as a guarantee of a $2,500,000 gross, Wayne is spreading himself so thin that he is behind schedule at Republic, RKO and Warner-each of which holds him under contract. One day last spring no fewer than nine first-run Los Angeles cine-mansions were showing John Wayne pictures. The payoff is handsome: Wayne averages more than $5,000 a week, gets 10% of the gross on films he makes for grateful little Republic...