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...Little World of Don Camillo. A film version of Giovannino Guareschi's bestselling novel about a militant parish priest and a Communist mayor; with France's Fernandel, Italy's Gino Cervi (TIME...
...Italian film, "Revenge," now being shown at the Beacon Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...
...Colorado, U.S. Senator Ed C. Johnson, whose friends and foes alike call him "the big dumb Swede," flattened former Democratic State Chairman Eugene Cervi in the Democratic primary, carrying every county in the state. In November "Big Ed" will face a tougher threat to his 26-year-old record of always winning Colorado elections. His opponent will be Will Faust Nicholson, 48, who astonished professionals by defeating John C. Vivian, twice governor and one of the state's most formidable Republicans. A tall, gangling man of immense energy and no side, Nicholson had never before run for political office...
Individual performances within the twisted framework of the plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
Wyoming and Arizona had both elected Democratic Senators and Governors. In Colorado, go-getting Democratic State Chairman Eugene Cervi, a onetime Denver Post reporter, had played his cards right and had actually trumped a Republican Governor and Congressman. Rhode Island had elected Democratic Congressmen, a Governor and a Senator. Despite a rough campaign, the Dewey landslide, and almost unanimous newspaper opposition, Manhattan's Communist-echo Congressman Vito Marcantonio was reelected...