Harrison's Reports (1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Harrison's Reports
Date:
1950
Author:
Harrison's Reports, Inc.
Publisher:
New York, Harrison's Reports, Inc.
Volume:
Harrison's Reports (1950)
Leaf #:
000204
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
'A reviewing service free from the influence of film advertising... devoted chiefly to the interests of the exhibitors.' From 1919 to 1962, HARRISON'S REPORTS served as a watchdog for the interests of U.S. independent movie theaters. Founder and editor P.S. Harrison used his 4-page sheet (occasionally 8-pages) to praise films that he considered good for theaters and audiences and to excoriate bad pictures, 'immoral' theater operators, films on 16mm and TV, and any company or policy that made life more difficult for exhibitors. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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180 HARRISON'S REPORTS November 11, 1950 BOX-OFFICE PERFORMANCES The previous box-office performances were published in the issues of March 4 and March 25, 1950: Columbia "The Palomino": Fair-'Poor "Blondie's Hero": Fair-Poor "Bodyhold": Fair "A Woman of Distinction": Fair "Cargo to Capetown": Fair "Tyrant of the Sea" : Fair-Poor "Military Academy": Fair-Poor "Kill the Umpire" : Good-Fair "No Sad Songs for Me": Fair-Poor "Beauty on Parade" : Fair "Customs Agent": Fair "The Good Humor Man" : Fair "Fortunes of Captain Blood": Fair "State Penitentiary" : Fair-Poor "Rogues of Sherwood Forest": Fair "711 Ocean Drive": Good-Fair "Captive Girl": Fair-Poor "David Harding, Counterspy": Fair "In a Lonely Place": Poor "On the Isle of Samoa": Fair-Poor "Beware of Blondie": Fair-Poor "Fuller Brush Girl": Fair "Convicted": Fair "The Petty Girl" : Fair Twenty-four pictures have been checked with the follows ing results: Good, 2; Fair, 12; Fair-Poor, 10. Eagle-Lion "The Great Rupert" : Fair "The Golden Gloves": Fair-Poor "The Boy from Indiana": Fair "The Fighting Stallion": FairPoor "Forbidden Jungle": Poor "Kill or be Killed": Fair-Poor "The Jackie Robinson Story" : Good-Fair "Timber Fury" : Poor "It's a Small World" : Fair-Poor "Death of a Dream": Poor "Federal Man": Fair-Poor "Destination Moon": Good-Fair "Eye Witness": Fair "High Lonesome": Fair "I Killed Geronimo" : Fair Fifteen pictures have been checked with the following results: Good-Fair, 2; Fair, 5; Fair-Poor, 5; Poor, 3. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Nancy Goes to Rio": Good "Black Hand": Fair "Conspirator": Fair-Poor "The Yellow Cab Man" : Good-Fair "Side Street": Good-Fair "The Outriders": Fair "The Reformer and the Redhead": Good "Please Believe Me": Fair "Shadow on the Wall": Fair "The Big Hangover": Fair "Father of the Bride": Excellent-Very Good "The Skipper Surprised His Wife": Fair "The Asphalt Jungle": Good-Fair "The Happy Years": Good-Fair "The Duchess of Idaho": Very Good-Good "Crisis" : Fair "Mystery Street": Fair "Three Little Words": Very Good-Good "Lady Without Passport": Fair "Summer Stock" : Very Good-Good "Annie Get Your Gun": Very Good "Stars in My Crown": Good-Fair "Toast of New Orleans": Good "Devil's Doorway": Good-Fair "A Life of Her Own": Good-Fair Twenty-five pictures have been checked with the following results: Excellent-Very Good, 1; Very Good, 1; Very GoodGood, 3; Good, 3; Good-Fair, 7; Fair, 9; Fair-Poor, 1. Paramount "Paid in Full" : Fair "Riding High": Good "Captain Carey, U.S.A.": Fair "No Man of Her Own": Fair "The Eagle and the Hawk": Fair "My Friend Irma Goes West": Very Good-Good "The Lawless" : Fair "The Furies" : Fair "Sunset Boulevard": Good "Fancy Pants": Good "Union Station": Good-Fair Eleven pictures have been checked with the following results: Very Good-Good, 1; Good, 3; Good-Fair, 1; Fair, 6. RKO "The Tattoed Stranger": Fair "Tarzan and the Slave Girl": Fair "The Capture": Fair-Poor "Wagonmaster" : Fair "The Golden Twenties": Fair-Poor "The Secret Fury": Fair "The White Tower": Fair "Where Danger Lives": Fair "Treasure Island": Good "Our Very Own": Very Good-Good "Born to Be Bad": Fair Eleven pictures have been checked with the following results: Very Good-Good, 1; Good, L; Fair, 7; Fair-Poor, 2. 20th Century-Fox "Mother Didn't Tell Me": Good-Fair "Under My Skin": Fair "Cheaper by the Dozen": Excellent-Very Good "Wabash Avenue": Good "Three Came Home" : Very Good-Good "The Big Lift": Good-Fair "A Ticket to Tomahawk": Fair "Night and the City": Good-Fair "Love that Brute" : Fair "The Gunfighter": Good "Where the Sidewalk Ends" : Good«Fair "Stella": Fair "The Cariboo Trail": Good-Fair "Broken Arrow" : Very Good "The Black Rose": Good "My Blue Heaven": Very Good-Good "Panic in the Streets" : Good-Fair "Farewell to Yesterday" : Fair-Poor Eighteen pictures have been checked with the following results: Excellent-Very Good, 1; Very Good, 1; Very GoodGood, 2; Good, 3; Good-Fair, 6; Fair, 4; Fair-Poor, t. United Artists "Love Happy": Good-Fair "The Great Plane Robbery": Fair-Poor "Quicksand": Fair "Champagne for Caesar": Good "D.O.A.": Good-Fair "Johnny One-Eye": Fair-Poor "So Young, So Bad": Good "The Underworld Story": Good-Fair "Iriquois Trail" : Good-Fair "The Admiral Was a Lady" : Fair "The Men": Good-Fair "If This Be Sin" : Poor Twelve pictures have been checked with the following results: Good, 2; Good-Fair, 5; Fair, 2; Fair-Poor, 2; Poor, 1. Universal-International "Bucaneer's Girl": Fair "The Kid from Texas": Fair "Outside the Wall": Fair "Ma 6s? Pa Kettle Go to Town": Good "One Way Street": Fair "Comanche Territory" : Good "I Was a Shoplifter": Fair "Curtain Call at Cactus Creek" : Fair "Sierra": Fair "Spy Ring": Fair "Winchester '73": Very Good-Good (Continued on bac\ page)