Evening star., 1950-12-10
Many Films C|onoor
For '1O-Best' RQtinqs
Competition for Top Honors Is Keen
With Sunset Running Ahead
By Jay Cormody


Scarlet oara might have liked being movie critic
Hike this.
a girl remember put problems
until tomorrow defeng vexng decisions in order to live the r
full, expedent life today.
last day of the Sunday This would have given her until
the 365th choose her obe films of the There
not like this made to the order Of Scarlet oaras
and procrasinating movie reviewers.
Nevertheless this the s44th might begin the
motions will lead 10best movie list that
last-minue Sunday in 1880
Best Pictures Not RieidIy Defined
this begins with the question: What best
screen play?
Also as usual there This
right public quite different No
around here unless could call the visual impact
shaping best picture judgments
Miss Gardner works have not yet come close to
winning.
wide despite fixed stand
ards of Judgment Almost no one disagreed last year when
the Kings Men" swept each
decision only to find that
approximately the decision.
Disageemens be violent other subjects Macarthur
foreign policy of the atom bomb ETC. but not on best movies
that harmony is not Unbelievable
Some Movies Were Better Than Ever
days hence-he finding 10 pictures he list
his choices without feeling afterward he should hide for while
This is the year. course Hollywood popped
better than ever It has not
supported that making better
any pictures made before but
has done rather well the whole In the various eds OF
mysteries comedy and Others it has come through with
highly credable performances not invariably better pictures
than
AS long ago as spring confident of best picture
those of other This Sunset
which outed from its first release sure win
ne the extent that the satca melodrama
collected number OF the prelm-
mary of the performance OF its STAR
Gloria Swanson Early honors for Miss Swanson IN sunset
than those she in all the
years like the she played IN
Charles Bracket Billy Wilder production
All About Eve Joins the CholIeneers
competition keener the subsequent months
another satrical drama this one
finally in the top Slot among
A About Eve and two OF
Its women players almost to
Academy Miss for the top Holly
Sentment being what it is in Hollywood MISS
Swanson S hold edge this competlton)
will get lot OF serious consderaon
from the classic short hcon OF
hardly be left of the 1O-bes st OF
although strong oi
Academy prizes in classification
The putting until his final Judgment on
list the comfort of knowing that there are even
Westerns upon back safely Westerns rarely
rather the function Of being popular pot
cool and profitable dollar Tor tnel
makers At least two "The Gunghter
be Al-America candidates before it over
And King soIomon's Mines Is Condidote
Stronger than either another adventure film although
humanity dramatic. This
solomons Mines which enchanting audiences the
at the peak of the THE
Crano de Bergerac Stanley Kramers two produc
the dramatic classification
$780, the wistfuly comic of counterfeter
Crown
The stock selection by
Kelly THE Fures Father
Annie Get Your Gun, THE Winslow Boy" Tickets
Tomahawk" and half dozen others.
question having to fill list
the best 10 something like defensible
However, scaret OHara would Why today
off until three weeks from today?"