In this 1948 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at two artefacts from Dore Schary's brief tenure as Head of Production at RKO, Berlin Express (directed by Jacques Tourneur), an early Cold War curiosity in which Robert Young and Merle Oberon try to save Paul Lukas from the clutches of Nazis in war-torn Frankfurt, and The Boy with Green Hair (directed by Joseph Losey), the pacifist fantasy, starring Dean Stockwell and Pat O'Brien, over which Schary clashed with the Elon Musk of studio-era Hollywood, Howard Hughes. We discuss the films' historical context, as well as the non-political pleasures they have to offer.

Time Codes:

0h 00m 25s: The RKO Story summary of 1948 at Radio-Keith-Orpheum

0h 05m 08s: BERLIN EXPRESS [dir. Jacques Tourneur]

0h 24m 19s: THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR [dir. Joseph Losey]

0h 46m 49s: Listener mail with Amy

Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

Link: For 'KL': The Boy With The Green Hair

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