Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-dollar cast is a bust...
...with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side at any given moment...
Criss Cross is further brightened by some excellent supporting performances. The best are Stephen McNally's detective, Dan Duryea as a sarcastic thug who seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely...
Frederic D. Houghteling 50, the only representative of the Harvard Student Council at the meeting, voted against he group's constitution. Radcliffe's Student Government delegates cast their votes...
...movie with a tearful title and containing a cast of Jeanne Crain, Ann Southern, and Linda Darnell, is likely to be by-passed by the discriminate moviegoer. That would be a great mistake in the case of "A Letter to Three Wives." It is one of the most witty, intelligent, and well-acted comedies within reasonable memory...