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February 20, 1955

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LENGTH OR STRENGTH?; An Old Question Posed By Two New Films

By Bosley Crowther

THE old joke about the little Indian who sneaks into the baggage car of the Santa Fe Chief at Albuquerque and mutilates movies in their transit from Hollywood to New York (which accounts, so they say, for the frequent disparity between the studio descriptions and the local reviews of films) might be taken as a serious indication of what happens to some foreign pictures in their passage from abroad.

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Historical Context for February 20, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[โ€ ]