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Born. To Valentina Cortesa, 25, Italian-born cinemactress (Thieves' Highway), and Richard Basehart, 27, Ohio-born cinemactor (Fourteen Hours) : their first child, a son. Name: John. Weight...
Valentina Cortesa, borrowing the identity of a dead fellow Pole in the concentration camp, comes to the U.S. to claim her friend's child and fortune. She marries the boy's guardian and moves with him to the house on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the boy and his ice-blonde governess are already installed. Soon Valentina is asking herself a familiar Hollywood question: "Is my husband trying to kill...
Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...
...from internal evidence in Thieves' Highway, that the Johnston Office is letting down the bars on what is and is not censorable. In this movie a prostitute (Valentina Cortesa) wins the hero from the-girl-back-home with whom he had been violently in love only two days earlier. Besides this reversal of Hollywood tradition, there is an excessively steamy love scene between Cortesa and Conte after an excessively cute game of ticktacktoe on his left pectoral...
...erratic direction of actors produces some mixed results: Morris Car-novsky's generalized flourishes as a once-happy Greek, Lee Cobb's flabby, badly timed portrait of a marketeer, Millard Mitchell's hard-bitten acting of a tired truck driver. The Italian glitter girl, Valentina Cortesa, seems a likely candidate for the top-salaried star bracket. In the role of a waterfront fixture, she looks like an unemployed countess, but she spikes the role with a sweater-girl figure, viva-ciousness and great self-assurance...