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Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...
Except for the serum-stealing episode, Saadia has about as much plot and pace as a travelogue. Scenes follow each other like lantern slides, and the leading players recite their speeches in a sort of elocution-lesson English, apparently intended to suggest that they are speaking cultivated French. Cornel Wilde even groans in an Oxford accent. Mel Ferrer, an actor who appears to know better, seems sheepish most of the time, but Rita Gam at least manages to look like what the Hollywood wise guys have been calling her: the leg with a first name...
...Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya, who is in the pay of Czarist agents...
...Sword's Point. The Three Musketeers' children flash steel and steal kisses in a sequel to Dumas' classic. Stars Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara. At the R.K.O. Boston...
Douglas Fairbanks fans may enjoy seeing Cornel Wilde, as D'Artagnan Jr., spearing soldiers by the dozen and merrily rolling them down stairwells, but for most others At Swords Point will be a somewhat ludicrous spectacle. Walter Ferris and Joseph Hofman have concocted a swashbuckling sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers that completely lacks the master's finesse and sense of suspense...