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Although still suffering from a leg injury sustained in practice, the Radcliffe junior completed a ballet composed from a Jacques Offenbach medley almost flaw-lessly...
Even straight-faced Bogart must have realized that Dead Reckoning was not a "gun-gutter-gal" thriller. Although Bogart is periodically covered by guns, blood, and Elizabeth Scott, it is impossible to take the movie seriously. This is not a flaw, since Dead Reckoning is a great if unintentional comedy. Most of the humor comes from double meanings and the ensuing snickers from the audience. The snickers become howls when Bogart gives his deadpan comments on ludicrous situations. (After an all-encompassing embrace with Lizabeth Scott he notes, "I hate every inch of her." And he should know...
With hindsight it is easy to see the flaw in this reasoning. Truman needed first to work out a solid concept of what the armed forces were supposed to do in defense of the U.S., and then cut away the nonessentials. In the absence of this concept, the Budget Bureau was literally running military policy. This in turn provoked shameful interservice brawling like the 1949 "Revolt...
...small fry of television fight for their very existence. Keenan Wynn was the comic whose ratings have begun to slip and Melvyn Douglas the account executive who had risen to a vice-presidency on the comic's back and now decides it is time to get off. The flaw in the play was that none of the characters were virtuous enough to be morally sympathetic or villainous enough to be theatrically sympathetic. But its speech and action had the ring of authenticity, and it was filled with accurately observed scenes, as when two bigshots spend a day futilely trying...
...travelling partner, Elsie Maynard, received a stunning interception by Elizabeth Peterson, whose superb dramatic soprano was matched by the saucy verve of her acting. Even during the intricate chorus scenes she retained here individuality and her consciousness of the part and its demands. Her only flaw was occasional trouble with intonation, especially in some of here difficult ensemble entrances...