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...either the best or the worst picture of the year. Its making cost $2,500,000. Its two young stars, full-breasted Jane Russell and slim Jack Buetel, had been ballyhooed to magazine cover fame for two years-and yet the U.S. had never seen them on the screen. Howard Hughes, the eccentric designer-aviator-producer, personally directed the picture and surrounded it with such provoking secrecy that not even the actors in it were allowed to see the finished product. Last fortnight The Outlaw had its premiere. What Hughes apparently had for his pains: a strong candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hughes's Western | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...that way. Payne is in his element when he gets into the woods. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Hollywood and Caesar Romero can portray the species. Between the cavortings of these over-anxious characters, the screen is crammed with dancer John on the run and partner Betty, oh-so undecided, right in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moviegoer | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

...enough in peace, multiplies nerve tension: "Tiny noises became exaggerated in our minds. Drops of accumulated drizzle would crash down onto fallen leaves like heavy footfalls. The click of a canteen cover belonging to one of our own men at some point where the trail doubled back beyond a screen of jungle sounded like a whole machine gun being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solomons:Three Days | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...behind the screen of words we have heard thus far, the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill has laid a real foundation for coordinated United Nations action, then it was an event of historic significance; otherwise it can mean very little," Wild said, although adding that the evidence at present indicated that a great deal more had been decided at Casablanca than could or would be released...

Author: By United Press, | Title: FDR AND CHURCHILL MEET IN AFRICA; WILD SEES HOPE OF TANGIBLE RESULTS | 1/27/1943 | See Source »

With exciting samba music adapted by Disney's able Musician Charles Wolcott, and incredible bursts of color that flow onto the screen as the film unfolds, Saludos painlessly tells North Americans about South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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