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Many have remarked about the curious inability on the part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...
...Renaissance pope issuing a bull, Toynbee first divides contemporary mankind into two blocs: on one hand, the World; on the other, the West. The West, like its principal challenger, Russia, is an "ex-Christian" civilization. But not only is the West without a faith; it is "the arch-aggressor of modern times." The World, and especially Russia, "invaded by Western armies overland in 1941, 1915, 1812, 1709 and 1610," has reason to mistrust the West. Toynbee avoids embarrassing this general thesis by any mention of the invasions of the West by the World, e.g., those of Islam and Genghis Khan...
Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler; United Artists) is the first feature-length picture to be filmed in three-dimension, Hollywood's hottest new trend. The story is strictly onedimensional: an intrepid engineer triumphantly helps build a railroad line in British East Africa in spite of the opposition of a couple of man-eating lions...
Photographed in Ansco color with the Natural Vision process (special polarized glasses for viewers), Bwana Devil gives a blurry illusion of depth. Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, onetime radio scriptwriter, uses three-dimension as a trick rather than a creative tool. The moviegoer seems to see a lion leaping into his lap, a native throwing a spear from the screen. But even in 3-D, Bwana Devil is a singularly flat adventure yarn...
...stock until 1961. Last year, through such moneymakers as The African Queen and High Noon, United Artists' profits climbed fast. Last week pictures distributed by United Artists got 17 nominations for Academy Awards. United Artists is also a front runner in the three-dimensional race, having bought Arch Oboler's B'wana Devil for $1,750,000. The picture has already grossed about $1,000,000 in only 15 showings. On a take of 30-70%, depending on the movie, Krim expects United Artists' 1952 gross profits to hit the $30-million mark...