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Often battered, seldom beaten Henry Armstrong, 36, who eleven years ago held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), and more recently has been managing fighters, announced in California that he intends to take a punch at the devil. He expects soon to be ordained a Baptist minister, tour the country preaching to sinners...
Movies produced or directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, National Velvet") are not likely to be commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of stiffness. The menacing events are pictured with such a reaching for poetic blandness that, by contrast, an energetic shot of the sheriff whipping up some scrambled eggs becomes a hardhitting, action-filled image...
...Devil in the Flesh" is polished, artistic product. It proves what so many American producers fail to understand: imagination and not dollars makes great pictures...
...Devil in the Flesh" is a story about a high school boy and a war bride in France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...
...difficult to point to the exact things which make a movie great. First, of course, its subject matter must be adequately rich, and "Devil in the Flesh" lives up brilliantly to this specification. The film is based on the autobiographical novel "Le Diable an Corps" by Raymond Radiguet. It shows unflinchingly the great residue of immorality which often accompanies war, and depicts the effect of a chaotic, perturbed world on human emotions...