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Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Off Cape Fear | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...most part the Harvard community's taste is very similar to that of the rest of the nation. Last year's big hits were "Born Yesterday," "Chapter by the Dozen," and "Sunset Boulevard," all of which had from 10,000 to 15,000 paid admissions during their three-day stands. Musicals go well, but "in the last year war pictures have been poison here--just poison...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Circling the Square | 12/8/1951 | See Source »

...scullery maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life of a Sweater Girl | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...appear that the branch of the service which concerns it, and its hero in particular, did the fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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