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Light on significance, the play is also light on story: the angels tend to drag their wings here & there, and things are so topsy-turvy that it is the villains who eventually prove dull. But most of the time, under José Ferrer's deft direction, the show gaily ripples along. As angel-in-chief, Falstaffian Walter Slezak is steadily delightful...
...Angel Face (RKO Radio) has as its leading character that familiar film figure-the beautiful but evil-hearted female. In this turgid thriller, she is a spoiled young woman (Jean Simmons) who, for no very clear reason, plots to murder her stepmother (Barbara O'Neil). She accomplishes her purpose by tampering with the reverse gear on her stepmother's automobile so that it backs over a cliff. Accidentally, the murderess' father (Herbert Marshall) also happens to be in the car at the time...
...Mitchum) spurns her love because he does not approve of the way she goes around demolishing people and automobiles, she decides to kill herself. With Mitchum in the car, she throws the gear into reverse and goes catapulting back over the cliff where her parents died. At this point Angel Face comes to an end, having just about run out of both actors and automobiles...
...windless night and Harrison walks in sporting a black cape lined with red velvet on his arm and an evil sneer on his lips there is no question about his supernatural identity. After picking up a blond WAC (Lueen MacGrath) who confides that she is really an angel sent to undo Harrison's deviltries, the group hops off to a nearby castle containing Miss Harrison as the sleeping beauty...
...takes the full first act for this sextet to become acquainted; then, one at a time, the colonels spend the next act trying to seduce the princess with the help of the demon and against the concentrated efforts of the angel. This plot is not bad. But there is a serious dearth of supporting dialogue. The Frenchman is always talking about love, the Russian continually tells the others they lack the proper dialectic approach to life, the Englishman murmurs about duty and his hunting dogs, while the American is largely concerned whether or not his psychiatrist would approve...