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...life, then helps him blow up a train full of German officers and the jockey as well. In the nick of time, the cowboy uncouples the baggage car in which his girl is held prisoner. Last reel: cowboy rides horse in big race, sets new record, wins trophy at fadeout in front of huge, beaming portrait of J. Stalin...
...nondocumentary portions of an otherwise plodding British-made film involve a chase by a police inspector and a scientist after the latter's wife and assistant, who have escaped with secret parts of his electronic invention. Just in time for the fadeout, the fugitives are conveniently buried in an avalanche. This leaves the scientist free to pursue his invention-as well as a beautiful Lapp girl, who has been getting warm glances from him during the trek over the frozen tundra...
...humorous design by Authors Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Co-Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...
When Salesman Robert Whitney, head of the National Sales Executives organization, heard about this graveside elegy to the American traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians...
Into this struggle steps a mysterious stranger (Joseph Gotten), courtly, penniless and alcoholic, a poet whose identity the film discloses at the fadeout. The good French girl and the evil housekeeper are rivals for his help, and he seems to waver between them. When Calhern dies, only Gotten has a clue to the whereabouts of a new will and the imagination to track it down...