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Paul Mantz, 43-year-old movie stunt flyer, who had entered the Bendix Trophy Race four times before but never won, had this race figured: it would be won by an old hand, not by some war-bred whippersnapper...
...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...
...which has two swimming pools on its 180 acres. It was knocked down to the Institute for $407,000 less a "100% discount" (i.e., for nothing). The War Assets Administration has sold 60 war surplus properties this way. Samples: Willow Run Air Base to the University of Michigan, the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in Philadelphia to Temple University...
This is the play that seven years ago took both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award, made the reputations of Gene Kelly and William Bendix and the fortune of William Saroyan. With Julie Haydon the only holdover from the original cast, it's still a very good play. Characters like the Arab and Nick and McCarthy are indestructible, even on the borscht circuit. Regardless of who asks it, "Did you ever fall in love with a 39 pound midget?" will always be a funny line...
...Sweet") were made into pictures of real power. Chandler's latest is "The Blue Dahlia," a story of three discharged Navy fliers just back in L.A. from the South Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate in his head and isn't taking any lip from anyone. The big boy is Johnny, played by Alan Ladd. His wife hadn't bothered to send him a "Dear...