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...their spare time, Luc's fellow teenagers introduce him to a dream world in which the models are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. (Fourteen-year-old Josette practices screaming into the wind until her voice approximates the right cracked huskiness; Luc tries to imitate Gunman Bogart.) Off & on, Luc sits in on an interminable argument between Black-Marketeer Vanderputte and a friend on the police force who comes to visit him every week. Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte...
Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...
Died. Arthur Melancthon Hopkins, 71, Broadway producer-director (80 plays) for 37 years; in Manhattan. Ex-Reporter (Cleveland Press) Hopkins boosted into the limelight such famed personalities as John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Playwrights Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Philip Barry, the late Producer Brock Pemberton and Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones...
...Chain Lightning" is a story of post-war jet piloting. Matt Brennan (Bogart), is a former B-17 ace who becomes chief test pilot for Leland Willis (Raymond Massey) after the war, finds his wartime love (Eleanor Parker) working as Willis secretary and her new fiance, Carl Troxell (Richard Whorf), designing planes for Willis...
Technically, "Chain Lightning" is accurate- the jet flying shots are the best pat of the film. There are some impressive climax scenes: when Brennan lands in Washington with an empty gas tank, and when his chute opens out against a background of clouds at the end of the picture. Bogart is equally competent whether he is zipping through space or singing "Bless Them All," but Miss Parker's acting in her co-starring scenes is somewhat hackneyed...