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...Knock on Wood," Kaye plays an American ventriloquist who, while touring Europe, becomes the unwitting carrier of a set of horrendously important atomic blueprints. Since not only the original owners of these plans (Our Side), but also two competing sets of Middle European badmen are after the documents, Kaye soon assumes the position of the rabbit in a greyhound race. The epic chases and subtrefuges which result, however, have their edges dulled by limp globs of plot which necessarily precede and follow each comedy sequence...
...understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television set watching six-shooters roar as badmen bite the dust. This is especially true on Saturday mornings...
Shane (Paramount) is as high-styled a Technicolored horse opera as moviegoers are likely to see this year. It tells the familiar old western yarn about the good guy v. the badmen. The mysterious stranger named Shane (Alan Ladd) befriends a couple of turn-of-the-century Wyoming homesteaders (Van Heflin and Jean Arthur) and their nine-year-old son (Brandon de Wilde). Having helped the "sodbusters" fight off a group of villainous cattlemen who are trying to grab their land, Shane just as mysteriously rides off into the blue distance...
Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale...
...three angels-two of them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...