Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year Paramount 1947: CALIFORNIA and CALCUTTA

Published: June 21, 2024, 4:01 a.m.

For this Paramount 1947 Studios Year by Year episode we watch a couple of films by producer/director team of Seton I. Miller and John Farrow:\xa0California, starring the belligerent sexual tension of Barbara Stawyck and Ray Milland in a left-leaning fable about the establishment of law and order in the West Coast, and\xa0Calcutta, a terrific Alan Ladd/Gail Russell noir, stylishly shot by Billy Wilder fave John F. Seitz.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 30s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CALIFORNIA [dir. John Farrow]

0h 25m 44s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CALCUTTA [dir: John Farrow]

Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joe W. Finler \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0

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