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...Came from Outer Space (Universal-International) is one of those modestly budgeted, neatly tooled little thrillers that Hollywood turns out without fanfare from time to time. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, it is a crisp combination of shocker and sociological comment. It tells of a Martian space ship that lands in the Arizona desert and of the chaos the visitors from outer space cause before they depart...
...sardonic talents of Producer-Director-Co-Scenarist Billy (Sunset Boulevard) Wilder are well tuned to these rather ghoulish goings on. Taking the action out of the barrack confines and into the barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal...
...most solid dish in a meal, some form of beef should be eaten. Either with pea pods or bean sprouts, the sauted slices of beef have a rich accompanying oyster sauce made from an extract of oysters and imported from China. The contrast between crisp green vegetables and tangy cooked meat is both delighteful and surprising...
...carnival introduced Foucauld to his destiny. When the Fourth Hussars were ordered to North Africa, Charles sent Mimi on ahead, placing her on the passenger list as the "Vicomtesse de Foucauld." When the bona fide officers' wives arrived, their scandalized chirps quickly brought Charles a crisp ultimatum from his C.O., in effect: "Either Mimi goes, or you go." They both went...
...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...