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Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
Scandal Sheet (Columbia] takes a faded leaf out of such newspaper melodramas as Five Star Final (1931) and Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
...Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
...murders in the first fifteen minutes set the pace for "The Mob," a B+ cops-and-robbers about waterfront racketeering. Oscar-winning Broderick Crawford has a grand time slugging, drinking, and wisecracking his way through the picture as a city detective who goes underground to crack a crime syndicate...
Director Robert Parrish serves this rehash expertly, pointing up the tart flavor and inventive trimmings of William Bowers' script. In his detective's masquerade as an out-of-town hoodlum roughing his way into the favor of waterfront racketeers. Academy Award Winner Broderick (All the King's Men) Crawford plays a tough guy's tough guy with engagingly sardonic humor...