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...them almost does. He leaves the Via Margutta with his girl friend Donata, and the next thing his old pals know, he has a one-man show at a fancy gallery. Says a crony: "I'm pleased for Donata-she's had a hard time, but at last she's found the right bed." But Donata's bed turns out to be the wrong one. When their friends throw a celebration for them in the old neighborhood, the truth comes out with the wine: the artist's show has been paid for secretly...
...Wanamaker is an Italian-American laborer, Loa Padovani his wife and bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...