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...stop this bickering, a cooperative film management plan has been suggested. Directed by a board made up of representatives of all film-showing organizations, it would show all movies and split the profits between the groups. But, to make a bad pun, this seems like putting the cartel before the horse. Any piece of new machinery will fall apart as long as a spirit of cooperation between the components is not present. And if this sprits can come about, such a directorate is not necessary. Unless each group, then, realizes that the excesses of competition will end the opportunity...
...Neighboring Central American republics are at odds with Guatemala over the growing evidence that its comrades play the international Communist game, passing Red propaganda into Nicaragua and El Salvador and sending agitators to stir up Salvadorian and Honduran banana and coffee workers. Inside his own country, the split between left & right has widened until Arbenz himself says: "There is no middle ground today in Guatemala...
Girls & Fines. Split into small groups, the students burst in on another movie and disrupted the show. Some marched on the railroad station, shoved lustily at a car or two and managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
...Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...
With its tried & true basic plot, Split Second was bound to work up a certain amount of grim suspense. In addition, Stephen McNally's characterization of the convict is a snarlingly powerful one. But much of the movie's intrinsic excitement is lost in its over-plotting and in the under-direction of Actor Dick Powell in his first directorial...