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The ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole...
It was after midnight before a Spokane surgeon could finish tying off the artery above and below the break and, until he had done, Dr. Fairbanks' thumb was still in demand.
Who was Sadakichi Hartmann? Even his cronies found him hard to define. To John Barrymore, Sadakichi was "a living freak presumably sired by Mephistopheles out of Madame Butterfly." To his biographer Gene Fowler, he was "a bamboo bridge connecting the art of the 1880's with . . . our own time...
In the New York Journal-American, name-dropping Elsa Maxwell threw together a last-minute obituary of that "fabulous countess," the late, madcap Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, just to "keep her alive in a funny little way." Although Elsa claims that the countess "never confided in her women friends...
Perhaps the weakest part of the film are the political dialogues between Fairbanks and the minister of State Service, played zestfully by Jack Hawkins. Filled with platitudes like "You can't deceive a whole people indefinitely," these could well have been left out of the film without detracting anything.