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...finds that an elderly G-man (Art Smith) is also after the crook. The picture develops into a sort of three-legged rat race, carried on against the background of a small-time posh hotel, a grim little cantina and a turbulent fiesta. The movie has some well-written, better-spoken tough talk, plenty of menace, and some sharp violence. A good deal of it is just routine pocket thriller. But thanks to Director Montgomery and Producer Joan Harrison there is also some good New Mexican location atmosphere...
...last the Argentine man in the street and cantina had someone to shout about besides Strong Man Juan Peron. The new Democratic Union presidential candidate was Radical ex-Senator José P. Tamborini, a porteño (citizen of Buenos Aires) and ex-physician who makes a meager living translating French and Italian authors. He has a weakness for handsome books, spends hours in Buenos Aires' swank, Goya-lined Jockey Club library...
...jaded by cinema bubbly. Its frank melodrama is based on the Mexican border legend of a rough-riding Robin Hood of the last century whose caballeros jubilantly bedevil the inept soldiery, pink villains neatly through the heart, are never too preoccupied to sing a rousing song or chuck a cantina girl jovially under the chin...
...Vera Cruz Harry and Limo hid out with Limo's girl, Alicia, in her dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does...
...Benehley, R. C. '12, and Ver Planck, P. '11. c. New York, "Caronia," July 1. d. Liverpool. e. London, July 10-12; Amsterdam, July 14; Cologne, July 16; Munich, July 20-23; Innsbruck, July 29; Cantina, July 31; Meran, Aug. 7; Lucerne, Aug. 14-17; Geneva, Aug. 23; Paris, Aug. 24-30; f. Cherbourg, "Olympic...