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...prosecution rested its case in the trial of Leon J. Kamin '48 for contempt of Congress yesterday, and the defense immediately entered a motion for a judgment of acquittal by Judge Bailey Aldrich...
This morning's session will begin at 9:30 in the Federal Building, half an hour earlier than usual. Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 presumably moved the time back to allow Senator Dirksen to leave as early as possible in the day. He is scheduled to deliver a speech in Knoxville, Tenn., tonight...
...hearing today follows a week's recess. When the case will be heard again after today is still in doubt, although Judge Aldrich will probably announced a time today...
...Knife (Robert Aldrich; United Artists) is one of the wickedest instruments ever plunged into Hollywood's always bleeding heart. Furthermore, it is twisted a few times, slowly, just to emphasize the point. The assassin in the case is Clifford Odets, the brilliant playwright (Waiting for Lefty) who lived right and thought left in Hollywood during the '40s. The deed he does here was originally perpetrated as a Broadway play in 1949. As a movie, it is arousing consternation, indignation and malicious delight among some of Hollywood's best people...
...Knife, from first frame to last, arches with tension like a drawn bow. The Odets script, adapted for the screen by James Poe, has been beautifully grained and shaped by two fine craftsmen, and it takes every ounce of strain that Producer-Director Robert Aldrich leans against it. Aldrich gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley...