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...already spent 20 years in the château's deepest dungeons, Laughton plans to force the brother's daughter (Sally Forrest) into marriage with a hand-picked blackguard (Richard Stapley) whom he has tricked into captivity. He introduces the couple ceremoniously, and when they begin to bicker, he gloats: "They've begun by disliking each other. Hatred will come later...
...question now in the balance is whether or not the Clubs will continue to take in 100 percent of the sophomore class in the spring "bicker" season. The class of '52, which began the 100 percent movement in their sophomore year when 605 of them pledged they would not join any eating club unless all members of the class got bids, carried it through last year without any written guarantee, but whether it can continue through this year remains to be seen. The Undergraduate Interclub Committee, made up of club presidents, has the final say. As the alumni members support...
Hydie, the conventtrained, divorced daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, finds Fyodor irresistible; he seems to her the only man of will, purpose and direction in sight. The rest are just silly Americans, broken refugees and ridiculous Paris intellectuals who bicker endlessly over brandies in trite dialectical lingo...
Actor Fitzgerald's Irish whimsy leavens his role of a wise old police inspector, but the rest of the characters are cut & dried. Holden seems miscast as a railroad detective with a reputation for toughness. Since he and Heroine Nancy Olson begin to bicker almost as soon as they meet, cinemaddicts will instantly sense a case of love at first sight. Director Rudolph Mate deploys his actors and camera with workmanlike skill, and the authentic settings help to give much of the film a fair degree of suspense...
Borderline (Universal-International) is just one more in the long series of movies that try to make 1934's It Happened One Night happen all over again. Thrown together on an unorthodox journey in Mexico and forced to pose as husband & wife, Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor bicker their way into true love. They mistake each other for dope-smuggling hijackers, but each is really an agent of the law who thinks that the other will have to be turned in when they reach the border...