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Despite its success among critics, the film was a box office failure, grossing $2.6 million worldwide against a production budget of $6 million. Waves grossed a total of $1.7 million in the United States. [2] In its limited opening weekend, the film made $134,333 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $33,583. [22]
Cecilia Ager, reviewing it in PM Magazine, wrote: “Seeing it, it’s as if you never really saw a movie before.” [5] It has been consistently ranked as the greatest film ever made. He directed twelve other features, the most acclaimed of which include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Othello (1951), Touch of ...
An homonym novel is based on this film, also written by Grey. [2] In the story a variety of weird assassins controlled by "the Mystery Mind," a disembodied voice who can command living people to do his bidding, threaten Violet Bronson, the daughter of an explorer, who they believe may know the location of the treasure of Atlantis.
The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 American drama romance film based on the true story of ski racing champion Jill Kinmont. The film was titled A Window to the Sky in the United Kingdom. [3] In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in slalom, and was a top U.S. prospect for a medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, a year away.
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination is a book by British writer Robert Macfarlane published in 2003 about the history of human fascination with mountains. The book takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and combines history with first-person narrative.
The film was placed 7th in the list of top-grossing movies in the USA in 1944.. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times commented, inter alia: "Paramount and its favored son, Bing Crosby aren't going precisely the same way that they went in Mr. Crosby's last picture ('Going My Way')—and everyone knows which way that was—but they are taking an agreeable turn together in "Here Come the Waves ...
Demons of the Mind is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Peter Sykes and starring Gillian Hills, Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern and Shane Briant. [3] It was produced by Anglo-EMI , Frank Godwin Productions and Hammer Film Productions , and written by Christopher Wicking , based on a story by Frank Godwin .