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The dialogue, stressing unexpected humor, the incongruous wise-crack, is almost as heroic in spots as the palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beat The Devil | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

The Air Force, with supersonic craft already in the air, has not lost its taste or its need for high-speed derring-do. At Holloman Air Force Base, N.Mex., is a menacing contraption: a rocket-propelled sled that travels on railroad rails at 750 m.p.h. As an additional attraction, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mach I at Zero | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

He had won his people's hearts in the only way left to majesty, which no longer can stir by bold decisions or amaze by feats of derring-do. He made ordinariness shine. Exhausting himself by faithful performance of the tedious ceremonial rounds, exemplifying in his family life a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE KING IS DEAD | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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