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...Great Locomotive Chase (Buena Vista). Walt Disney has intelligently made a Technicolor, CinemaScope film out of one of the best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...
Alfred Hitchcock apparently never appears in The Trouble With Harry. He should have flown to California for the weekend to see what the Vista Vision boys were doing to his name...
...Threefold Movement." Briefly, the President touched on some specifics, e.g., statehood for Hawaii, revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. before reverting to the theme of the "program for the republic begun three years ago." He concluded: "The vista before us is bright. The march of science, the expanding economy, the advance in collective security toward a just peace-in this threefold movement our people are creating new standards by which the future of the republic may be judged...
...Steffan, 62, longtime (1929-53) vice president of the National City Bank of New York, aide to Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams as White House business manager in 1953, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission to Nationalist China on Formosa in 1954; of a heart attack; at his ranch in Vista, Calif...