TOUCH OF EVIL
Nov 10, 2020
3 minutes
Words BY Charles Bramesco
here was a time, not so long ago, when imagining the movies without MGM would’ve been as unthinkable as imagining soft drinks without Coke. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer built Hollywood into the planet’s biggest film factory but, by the early ’70s, the industry had gotten too big for one of its principal architects. Resort tycoon Kirk Kerkorian purchased a controlling share of MGM in 1969 with plans to strip the studio for parts, deemphasising film production and
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