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...Adventuress. British-made thriller, chiefly distinguished by Deborah Kerr (TIME, March...
Hero Bob Hope, a baby photographer with delusions of courage, is minding the office one day for a private detective neighbor when a beautiful adventuress named Dorothy Lamour comes in, mistakes him for the detective and engages him to find her kidnapped uncle. From there, the action leads through various typically Chandlerian hangouts-one of those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle...
...Adventuress. A British-made thriller, chiefly distinguished by Deborah Kerr (TIME, March...
Somewhat more modestly, Miss Kerr will very soon be exposed to U.S. cinemaddicts. The exposure is a clever little British-made melodrama about Nazi spies in Ireland called The Adventuress (Eagle-Lion; English title: I See a Dark Stranger). Whatever the result of this more critical encounter, few who see her can miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr carries The Adventuress as effortlessly as a hat box. Almost nobody at all will miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr looks like everything Englishmen mean when they become lyrical about roses. Given this primary stuff that stars are made...
...turn it into a major Hollywood studio. For Eagle-Lion, Young has made a deal with British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank to distribute ten of his pictures in the U.S. while Rank distributes Pathe's in Europe. Next week, Pathe will distribute its first major Rank picture, The Adventuress, starring Britain's Deborah Kerr (TIME...