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...that name off the coast of Hong Kong, appears to be inhabited by characters who bear a striking resemblance to the types that populate the never-never land of moviedom. On hand are a sultry nightclub singer (Jane Russell), an intrepid adventurer (Robert Mitchum), and an American cop (William Bendix) who is rubbed out while running down the sinister proprietor (Brad Dexter) of the Quick...
...sings One for My Baby in a gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
...pocket. Sticking to the letter of the recipe, he called in a tough guy, Robert Mitchum, and a seductress, Jane Russell, who really want to spend the rest of their lives on a rubber plantation in peace and senility. He added a nice, but clever, international cop, William Bendix, who gets stabbed, and rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals who paddle after him and stab nice but clever international policemen. This crew wades through the plot outlined in formula number six, involving money, beautiful women, money, diamond necklaces, money, dice...
...Girl in Every Port (RKO Radio] has Groucho Marx, but not much else, in its favor. Teamed with William Bendix, Groucho is a Navy veteran with a talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote...
Sound Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Bob Hope, with William Bendix, Lina Romay...