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...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while closely documenting a $1,000,000 burglary; with Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern (TIME, June...
...point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...
Nancy Goes to Rio (MGM) works some Latin American backgrounds and tempos into the story of a teen-ager (Jane Powell) who aspires to the theatrical fame already reached by her mother (Ann Sothern) and her grandfather (Louis Calhern). She wins a coveted Broadway role for which her mother believes herself cast. On the way to a vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong...
...play, once the godfather writes it, gives Molnar's own a spirited last act. Earlier, The Play's the Thing is by no means always spirited: the lines are witty enough, but the story is all too frequently becalmed. The production, however, is well managed throughout. Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) acts the playwright with sophistication and style; Arthur Margetson plays the trapped actor with humor. As the prima donna, Faye Emerson always scores with her looks, not always with her lines...
Arch of Triumph (Enterprise-United Artists) is one of the outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...