Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Gambles...
Trio. Somerset Maugham escorts three more of his short stories to the screen p with Jean Simmons, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick (TIME...
...Invoked the McCarran Act to screen diplomatic staffs and U.N. delegations entering the U.S. Hereafter, diplomatic aides may be questioned and barred by immigration officials if there is evidence of activity endangering national security...
Kipling's red-blooded hokum comes to the screen almost intact, lacks nothing for juvenile excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two. As Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized...
Most of Kim's backgrounds (and some of its action) were filmed in India, and M-G-M technicians have done an expert job of blending the studio scenes into the location footage. While the screen overflows with exotic local color, the soundtrack matches its extravagance with Kipling's quaint version of the Indian idiom. Even grownups who are dragged off to see Kim are likely to have no regrets...