Paramount World (1955)
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Paramount World
A Thundering Cable About "War and Peace'*
Early this month, Russell Holman and Jerome Pickman made a flying visit to Rome in order to provide a first-hand report on the greatness and power of the Ponti-DeLaurentiis production for Paramount, WAR AND PEACE. The following is their finding as delivered in a cable addressed to Messrs Barney Balaban and George Weltner:
HAVE JUST HAD TREMENDOUSLY THRILLING EXPERIENCE OF SEEING COMPLETE «*WAR AND PEACE" FILM IN FOUR-AND-ONE-HALF HOURS ROUGH-CUT FORM. DESPITE LACK OF MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS,
FINAL EDITING, DUBBING, ETC., PICTORIAL AND DRAMATIC IMPACT OF MAT¬ ERIAL THROUGHOUT IS TERRIFIC AND OF HIGHEST QUALITY. SPECTACLE POR¬ TIONS HAVE GREAT SIZE AND POWER, PARTICULARLY BATTLE SCENES, AND PER¬ SONAL STORIES ARE EMOT¬ IONALLY GRIPPING TO Nth DEGREE WITH SUPERFINE PERFORMANCES, PARTICUL¬ ARLY BY HEPBURN, FONDA, FERRER, HERBERT LOM AS NAPOLEON, AND BARRY JONES. VISTAVISION CAMERA WORK BY JACK CARDIFF IS CONSISTENTLY MAGNIFICENT. GREATEST EPIC NOVEL EVER WRITTEN HAS BEEN CONVERTED WITH AMAZING SUCCESS INTO POTENTIALLY, WHEN IT REACHES FINAL FORM, ONE OF THE GREATEST MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIMES. HAVE EMPHASIZED FINAL PICTURE MUST NOT RUN OVER THREE-AND-HALF HOURS AND ARE ASSURED AND.. BELIEVE THIS CAN BE DONE. WILL COVER IN GREATER DETAIL IN LETTER, REGARDS.
HOLMAN, PICKMAN
SSSSH-H-H-H-H!
TOKYO At a cocktail party in the Imperial Hotel, Paramount General Manager Metori, at left, introduces Mr. HitchcocK to Mr, Rampo Edogawa, a famous Japanese writer of "thrillers."
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