Word: foxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck of the Irish (20th Century-Fox) burdens a pleasant little comedy with a forbiddingly sticky title. The movie is just about as sham as most shamrock tales, but, with one exception, it is presented with taste and ingenuity. The exception: sequences taking place in Ireland are smeared with a green tint that displays the world as through a shower curtain...
...wasn't worrying about the great past. He had already made a fortune collaborating on tunes like Little Sweetheart of the Ozarks, and songs for children (he has none himself) like The Sly Little Fox...
Mine Own Executioner (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...
...general interest and sharpen the melodramatic suspense. Meredith's performance, his best in a long time, could carry the picture singlehanded ; Dulcie Gray is highly satisfactory as his clumsy, devoted wife; and the handsome but somewhat wooden Kieron Moore is effectively used. The picture, made in England by Fox, is well filmed and has a climactic scene high on a fire ladder which is an excellent piece of pure scare...