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...Chase (by Horton Foote) was Producer-Director-Actor José Ferrer's bid for five Broadway hits in a row.* But The Chase proves too much for him-or rather, too little. Laid in Texas, it tells of a violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...
...further trouble is that The Chase keeps preaching, with too-pious insistence, against unnecessary violence. But as a thriller, The Chase can only practice what it preaches at the cost of sufficient thrills. Cramped by such material, Director Ferrer does little more than work up a few lively scenes and-as he has so often done in previous productions-cast some good people in minor roles. As the harassed sheriff, with a pregnant wife into the bargain (Kim Hunter), Cinemactor John Hodiak struggles manfully, but about all he demonstrates is that a policeman's lot is not a happy...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (José Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...
Anything Can Happen (Paramount] might be subtitled George Papashvily Discovers America. What does happen: 1) George Papashvily (José Ferrer), a Don Quixote in a caracul cap, arrives...
...screenplay, by Director George Seaton and George Oppenheimer, has slicked up and sentimentalized the rather owlish, rough-hewn original story to make a folksy, affectionate film. As the immigrant who aspires to become a good American, horsefaced José Ferrer does his best job of movie acting to date. Eugenie...