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...self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican detective Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...
Ambler was the popular novelist of the left during the thirties, although two well-known movies made from this period, Journey Into Fear (with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles) and Mask of Dimitrios (with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet), weeded subversion out. But then Ambler changed. After 1940 he didn't write a book for eleven years. He was in charge of propaganda films for the British Army until 1946, and spent a few years writing screenplays (e.g., Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea). In 1951 a disillusioned Ambler, returned with Judgement on Deltchev, about a political trial in Eastern Europe...
...Citizen Kane. Even as a tired king of the jungle, though, Welles, now 59, easily dominated the festivities at Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel where the American Film Institute gave him its Life Achievement Award. Before an audience of 1,200, including Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston and Joseph Cotten, Welles was the picture of graciousness. "What I feel this evening is the opposite of emptiness," he said, as he accepted the award "in the name of mavericks everywhere." Then he dandled on his knee another enfant terrible and early Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal saying...
Niagara with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten, Friday and Saturday...
Gaslight, with Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Charles Boyer, Friday and Saturday, April...