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...brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Karl Maiden, as his easygoing sidekick, tries to soften Widmark's third-degree tactics in close-order drill and simulated combat...
...Warner) takes Hollywood back for the third time to the soil-pay dirt, that is-of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1924 novel. However, the ground has been pretty well cropped-over by now, and the corn cannot be strongly recommended for human consumption. Jane Wyman, nonetheless, injects an attractive glow into the pious heroine, the pure little rich girl who bears poverty, hard work and a doltish husband so meekly that, as would appear, her sufferings later give her the unchallenged right to run her son's life for him. Sterling Hayden is convincingly uninteresting...
Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...
...asylum in England as an anti-Communist refugee who loosened a few rivets in Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain. Edna is still reading about the exploit in the papers when Charles shows up with Eva and announces that she will stay the week. With her intuitive antennae out a mile, Edna spots Eva as phony, senses that Charles knows it too and soon realizes that Charles knows that she knows...
...nerves develops, Charles is revealed as a crypto-Communist and Eva as a Soviet spy. Edna finds that she still loves Charles too much to give his scheme away. But matters are not really in her hands, for in the background lurk two rival espionage teams, led by a vulpine Commie and a cagey British agent. Between them, they pull the plot strings of Ambush into a tight, ironic noose...