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...performances-notably those of James Barton, Reginald Beane and James Cagney, are as deft a compromise between stage & screen as you are likely to see. Nevertheless, a good deal which would be as taut and resonant as a drumhead on the stage is relatively dull and slack on the screen. On the other hand, those who made the picture have given it something very rare. It's obvious that they love the play and their work in it, and their affection and enjoyment are highly contagious. They have done so handsomely by Saroyan that in the long run everything...
...This drumhead interpretation of policy came only a few hours after another British officer, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker, left Jerusalem on a "transfer" home. Barker, after the King David Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's tight-as-a-drumhead melodrama (TIME...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...