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...Kent ever been a Communist? He took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. So did the other two authors, Richard Owen Boyer, onetime New Yorker writer and avowed Communist, and ex-N.Y.U. Professor Edwin B. Burgum...
...fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...
...wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...
...short order, Ladd beards the bandit leader in his camp and has a man-to-man chat with him, helps a good many of the British colony fly out of Gundahar, and, with the help of the suddenly war-minded Boyer, cuts down the enemy with ma chine guns. In the process he also wins the affections of a blind British girl (Deborah Kerr). Thunder in the East is a flabby, farfetched thriller whose melodramatics come across as only a muted rumble on the screen...
...other cities. The idea is an outgrowth of the readings which Laughton did in U.S. Army hospitals during World War II (TIME, March 31), and which also generated the record-breaking Don Juan in Hell tour of the First Drama Quartette (Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead). The biggest problem faced by Producer Paul Gregory: how to make Laughton stand still long enough for the filming of the 15-minute shows. Laughton finally made nine of them in two days. Sponsor Duffy-Mott plans to repeat the 26 shows after they have had one run. Said a spokesman...