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...dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
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