Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
...difficulties in adjusting to civilian life, many politicians still feel that the Eisenhower name is magic around the country and that he is by far the strongest possible Republican candidate there...
...potent, apparently, is the magic of the lightless bus that a legend has arisen which quotes a bus driver who had come on the job in April as saying. "I'd be afraid to take the thing over the state line...
...Except for an "upbeat" ending, which Co-Scripter Williams reluctantly imposed on Playwright Williams at the urging of Hollywood, the film gives a reasonably faithful reading of the play. Painstakingly produced and expensively cast, it tries conscientiously to rework the frail story in movie terms. But the charm, the magic and the vague sadness of the play are lost...
...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...