Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fredric March with his solid, unruffled disposition makes a neat and finished sketch of the brooding Heyst; Sir Cedric Hardwicke is as sinister as a haunted house with his bland, cobra-like Mr. Jones; Jerome Cowan, mouthing claxon-like Cockney accents, draws an ugly but adept picture of a psychopathic killer; sparrow-voiced Betty Field turns the mousy Alma into a heroine with dimensions. But it is an actor's movie. There is never any real suspense in a story where suspense is the hallmark...
...when "Judge" Smith got his committee hearings under way last December, New Dealers stopped smiling. Wily Mr. Smith, not pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB's messy affairs one damaging fact after another. Infinitely painstaking, Mr. Toland in ten weeks' hearings wove a garish tapestry of the evidence, showed Board bias, incompetence, extra-legal activities...