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...kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked in mythic watercolors: "Her upper body was all moon pearl . . . and her lower body all slithering ancient green-black coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Here to Infinity | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Time Listings, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Wall make me lose face," explained the dragon. "Halvud students write Stalag 38, write O.K. Collal, write Yankee Go Home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGeorge and the Dragon | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...fail and I commit Hali-Kali!" sputtered the dragon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGeorge and the Dragon | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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