Word: bendixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although vetoing the plan at a meeting Thursday evening also attended by Dean Bender and himself, Watson declared, the Masters were "very anxious" to see some comparable type of laundry scheme adopted, but "it was decided that it is not feasible to have any kind of Bendix machines put in the Houses...
...photography is for the most part excellent, especially a scene of a biplane disintegrating in the air in a thunderstorm. In fact, the parts of the movie that concern the flying are all good. Howard Da Silva, playing the worried owner of the airlines, is natural and convincing. William Bendix takes over every scene in which he is, as a hedgehopping pilot and a friend of the family. One wishes that the movie had stuck to the flying story and left out the drab plot surrounding Anne Baxter, who is unpleasantly water-eyed almost all the time...
...Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier frame, before matters are cleared...
Alan Ladd handles both girls and perils with his customary cold, efficient grace; Gail Russell is very easy to look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...
...Life of Riley (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC), as led by William Bendix, a choice if rather special comedian...