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Behind these two protagonists lies a shadowy plot dealing with a diamond necklace (for which Cartier, Inc. gets a screen credit), a murder, and the inevitable chase sequence: villainous Brad Dexter, absconding in a stolen car with both Jane Russell and the jewels, as pursued and overtaken by Mature in a helicopter. Besides petulantly tossing her head at both Mature and Vincent Price, Jane sings three songs by Hoagy Carmichael, and is thoroughly photographed in bed, in a glass-walled shower, and in & out of a succession of deep-plunging evening dresses...
...Dexter Perkins '09 will be chairman of the Harvard Foundation Council for this year, University officials announced tonight...
Guyda has a fair bench to draw upon. "Up and coming players," as he describes them, include halfbacks Dick Dexter and Bob Leary, and an aggressive fullback, Craig Jennings. He has a "good pupil" in James Pates, who is new to the game, and a promising halfback in Oliver Wadsworth, who has a good kick, but sometimes "fades" when about to tackle...
...jerky charades of early movies is fun. Its dialogue sounds as hackneyed as silent subtitles read aloud. Its simple-minded love story, which begs for trilling piano accompaniment, seems too naive for Valentino to have enacted even on the screen of the '20s. Its Technicolored Valentino (Anthony Dexter), trysting with the actress wife (Eleanor Parker) of his director (Richard Carlson), pours out his mockpassionate speeches in a thin stream of Midwestern nasality...
...Actor Dexter-who in his native Talmadge, Neb. answers to the name of Walter Fleischmann-got the role after 1,784 candidates had been interviewed and 493 tested. In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He succeeds in looking like Valentino when the camera angle is right; most of the time, he looks like a jowly young man caught in a hopeless hoax...