…films like Willam Castle‘s Hollywood Story (’51) would be completely forgotten….they would sink beneath the waves.
Bosley Crowther review, posted on 6.7.51:
“It is easy to see, now, why some pictures which sound promising at the start, on the strength of the ideas behind them, turn out to be dismal flops.
“Hollywood Story demonstrates it.
“This film, which came to the Paramount yesterday, is, in fact, a detailed demonstration of the collapse of a good idea upon which a movie producer hopefully launches himself. And with the collapse of his idea, this picture collapses, too. Only goes to show what a gamble the movie business is.”