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...Quo Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...
...Indian picture that is merely a slight variation on the old theme of good guy v. bad guy among guns, horses and dust. But the film, which cost a piddling $681,000, is topping such gaudy epics as The Greatest Show on Earth ($3,000,000) and Quo Vadis ($6,500,000). Goldstein, 48, who is Hollywood's top moneymaking producer, was not at all surprised to hear the news. Said he: "I don't write, I don't direct, I don't shoot for awards. But hell...
...Quo Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...
...feature of the issue, however, is the annual movie worsts and other things "as Lampy sees them." Lampy is quite perceptive here except in the case of Tales of Hoffman. Of course, most of his worsts, like Alice in Wonderland and Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...
...present program that are discussed in the Report's first fifty-two pages. And if these deficiencies are correctable, as the Council seems to think, the requirement proposal is irrelevant at best. To be sure, the Council has covered itself by suggesting temporary maintenance of the satus quo, but it seems a lamentable waste of time to analyze the G.E. requirement on a popularity poll basis when it is assumed that factors affecting students' attitudes toward G.E. will soon change for the better. After a period of improvements and readjustments, the time may come to examine the course requirement...