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...Ralph Damon, T.W.A.'s president, and Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, who looks after T.W.A.'s overseas work, hope to fly tourists and cargo in & out of Ceylon. They also have a bigger goal, plan to use Ceylon as a steppingstone, if the Civil Aeronautics Board permits, to fly on to Bangkok, a traffic-rich crossroads...
Stop, You're Killing Me (Warner) sets some more of Damon Runyon's guys & dolls to music.* This tuned-up version of the old (1935) Runyon-Howard Lindsay comedy, A Slight Case of Murder, filmed for the first time in 1938 with Edward G. Robinson, still has as its setting the Saratoga mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year...
Under Ralph Damon, now president of T.W.A., and the late Alfred Marchev, Republic racked up an impressive wartime record by turning out more than 15,000 P47 Thunderbolts. Mundy Peale's part in that program was managing Republic's Evansville, Ind. plant, which turned out more than 6,000 P-47s. But when Peale was made Republic president in early 1947, he faced problems galore...
Twentieth Century Fox's newest technicolor extravaganza, Bloodhounds of Broadway, should rate as one of the worst musicals of the year. The standard of acting is so poor that any Oscars for the film must go to two sleepy-eyed bloodhounds who meander their way through the very routine Damon Runyon plot--which has such a strong resemblance to the stage show Guys and Dolls that legal action has been started. For the movie's sake it's too bad that the alleged plagiarism wasn't more obvious...
Bloodhounds of Broadway (20th Century-Fox) is a good-humored cinemusical about a few of Damon Runyon's guys and dolls: Lookout Louie, Curtaintime Charlie, Pittsburgh Philo, Ropes McGonigle and other such gruff but likable Times Square characters...