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...Kind of Man, like so many Warner films, is less esthetically vivid, more earnestly aware of history and document. A return to the year before repeal, it tells the story of an egomaniac gambler (Zachary Scott), his girl (Janis Paige), and a columnist (Dane Clark) who refused to take no, or a beating, for an answer...
...picture involves: 1) a good deal of elaborate gangster talk, perhaps a trifle too redolent of dictionaries of cant; 2) a conscientious coverage of the key spots of the period (Chicago, Miami, Manhattan, Saratoga); 3) some appealing performances, notably those of Scott as the gambler, Newcomer Paige as his neatly pneumatic girl friend, and Harry Lewis as his rather clinically masochistic Man Friday...
...gambler at Monte Carlo or Santa Anita ever calculates the odds more cold-bloodedly than insurance companies do. After its actuaries had finished figuring, Britain's Sun Life Assurance Society announced last week that its future life policies will not cover death if caused by atom bombs. Explained the Society: "If only one atom bomb were to fall on London we would have to pay out ?750,000 [$3,000,000] to policyholders...
...rich and rowdy Denver Post is a lady with a shady past. For most of her 53 years she was the gaudy consort of a river gambler and a barkeep, helped make them both multimillionaires. But for the last 13 years, having outlived them and their time, she has found life dull. Last week the aging hussy of Champa Street took a tardy fling at respectability, snatched herself a new kind...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...