Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hour's playing time, the TV Othello became a taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...
That empty brown cardboard box Ricardo Montalban carried around in the Yard last winter has finally reached the local screen. It is a pleasure to report that the celluloid facsimile, of the box does not seem empty, nor does Mr. Montalban look nearly as silly carrying it. He is, in fact, quite believable in the role of police lieutenant Morales of Barnstable, a detective looking for an unknown murderer...
Annie Get Your Gun. An adaptation of the Broadway hit gives the screen Irving Berlin's best score and Betty Hutton her best role (TIME, April...
...been offered a lead in a new Broadway musical based on The Arabian Nights. She was definitely interested -provided her new movie commitments did not get in the way. Her first film will likely be either a screen adaptation of W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions, or an original story with a far from surprising title: Daughter...
Edge of Doom (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...