Word: zanucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing about Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's painstakingly made film is better than its performances. As a paunchy, middle-aged adjutant, Dean Jagger without his toupee seems to have launched an entirely new career. Broadway's Gary Merrill, playing the general's nerve-racked predecessor, adds considerably to the picture's conviction. Hugh Marlowe, Robert Patten, John Kellogg, Millard Mitchell and Paul Stewart are all able actors in top form. If Hollywood had no star system, the difficult central role would call for an actor of more physical maturity than Gregory Peck. Nonetheless, Star Peck rises...
Next to the annual Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...