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...Quislingesque wine-merchant (Hume Cronyn) who from the first plays ball with the Germans is not just a sniveling traitor. The roots of his spirit are so atrophied that he is sincerely baffled by the loathing of his fellow-prisoners...
...compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes for murdering each other. And daughter (Teresa Wright) is at the moonstruck age when she cannot bear the family's dullness a moment longer...
Involved in a more or less histrionic way are, among others, Fay Wray and Betty Furness, a couple of fugitives from the Hollywood quickie lots who don't have too much to do, but look decorative. Hume Cronyn, who has gotten good notices in rather poor plays in the last few years, plays the politically ambitious D.A. and comes out pretty well trying to make a highly exaggerated role bearable through the whole evening. It might also be appropriate to mention in passing that one of the co-authors is the husband of Gloria Stuart...
...World War II turns out as the British are positive it will, some day a biography will be written of ginger-haired, dynamitish Admiral Sir John Cronyn Tovey, 55, now Commander in Chief of Britain's Home Fleet. Footnote material to such a work was orally contributed by one of his former shipmates who arrived last week in Manhattan from Suez (via the Cape of Good Hope) aboard the Empress of Asia with several hundred other British veterans of battles in the Mediterranean and campaigns along its shores. Said Sir John's former shipmate (insisting naturally that...
...pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...