Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star (Paramount). "Why was it not in color? We're getting took with these TV black-and-whites."-F.E.S., Eureka, Mont...
Though he could not himself destool intransigent chiefs,* he decided to make an example of Paramount Chief Ofori Atta II, ruler of 500,000 tribesmen in the south. Nkrumah withdrew official recognition from him, then appointed a former British judge to investigate his administration. Last week, after the judge found that Atta II had abused his power, Nkrumah's Parliament transferred control of the chief's funds to the government...
...Spell (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a sensitively observed and breathingly real tragedy of family life. Alma Duval (Shirley Booth) is a nice, warm, middle-aged body, given to sentiment, running to fat, the kind of woman whose world is bounded by porch and kitchen, husband and kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire...
...Another Time, Another Place (Lan-turn Productions; Paramount...
Vertigo (Hitchcock; Paramount). Hollywood's best-known butterball, Alfred Hitchcock, has been spread pretty thin in recent years. The old master, now a slave to television, has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares...