Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shuddering millions may or may not recognize this nightmare as a remake of Boris Karloff's film classic, The Mummy. Whether they do or not, the sixth straight gals-and-ghouls movie (and 59th film) turned out by Britain's brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles...
...Hammer's exports have also raised British blood pressure. "I feel inclined to apologize to all decent Americans for sending them work in such sickening bad taste," wrote the London Observer's Critic C. A. Lejeune after seeing Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein. This hardly worried Colonel ("The King of Nausea") Carreras. Frankenstein's production cost: $270,000. Its worldwide gross: $7,500,000. Net profit for Hammer...
Secret of such astonishing returns is Hammer's easy access to cash and quickie production methods. To launch a film, tiny (160 employees) Hammer borrows from Columbia Pictures, which owns 49% of Hammer's studios in Windsor. Production is fast (average: six weeks...
...round of the Easterns, Foster won the next round with a 4-2 decision over Gene Appel of Columbia. Then, in the semi-finals, he turned back Doug Volugenau of Navy 8 to 5. Foster lost in the finals, however, dropping a 9-4 decision to Lehigh's Ed Hammer...
...when Tillich became the First Chargé of Wingolf at the University of Halle, he says, "it was, and is, the proudest achievement of my life." But despite authoritarianism, discussion was absolutely free, and it was there ("in the dinner and drinking sessions") that Tillich began to hammer out the problems that later were to become his life work...