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Small Print. In Tulsa, Ted Cobb, 9, during a tornado alert, hastily scribbled out and taped to his chest a "last will and testament," directing, "I leave everything I own to my friend George Draper Jr., if he isn't blown away first...
...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...
...price of protection soon goes up. Cobb's partner, who wants the union in and the hoods out, winds up at the bottom of an elevator shaft. After that, the picture turns into a shemozzle over the manufacturer's soul as well as his love life (Valerie French) and his dollar, with the racketeer on the side of the angels and a union organizer (Robert Loggia) reading the gospel according to Dave Dubinsky-with one surprising variation. There is plenty of union activity, in a manner of speaking, but it generally seems to be of the kind that...
...Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball...
...characterizations are handled extremely well--easily identifiable types with enough individuality to be convincing. Cobb perhaps is a little too obvious about his character's psychological condition, especially when he destroys his son's photograph in a moment of aberration, but Begley and Warner are especially good. Fonda himself has a role much more difficult than any other: the attitudes and attentions of all the jurors center on him, and he must handle each in a different way. His involvement is complicated by his own uncertainty about the boy's innocence. He fights his verbal and psychological battles with great...