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...Paramount's Sunset Boulevard and 20th Century-Fox's All About Eve. The National Board of Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor (for his playing in Twelve O'Clock High), they gave an unprecedented clean sweep to one studio: Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century...
...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...vain, to find any real grounds for controversy. Some in both countries may object that the movie treats its royalty with the special deference that Hollywood reserves for visiting dignitaries. But the story's stuffiness, as well as its sentimentality, has been filigreed with humor, and Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson has knowingly worked the combination into an enjoyable film...
...Scripter M. C. Brock, a graduate of radio's Dick Tracy, tries to keep his plot abreast of the news. Captain Video began his interstellar travels during the excitement about flying saucers, and he was helping out in the front lines during the first months of the Korean war. Currently, the captain (aided by invisible planetary friends) is fending off an all-out invasion of the U.S. by the "combined forces of the Near East, the Far East and Eastern Europe...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty examination of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders (TIME...