Word: gambler
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...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
...pulchritude of Linda Darnell and dancing of George Murphy are present for decorative purposes, though both are outshone by Walter Brennan portraying an octogenarian with libido trouble. And for the role of Seabiscuit, a gambler's comic stooge, Milton Berle has developed an appropriate whinny, to which the Robin and Rainger tunes contrast favorably...
Humphrey Bogart, as tough and suave as ever, plays the part of a Broadway gambler who stumbles into a Fifth-Column outfit, picks up a political consciousness and a good-looking refugee while he's at it, and winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...
...Filipino is a stubborn gambler even for the Orient, an unbusinesslike dweller in the Far East of shrewd traders. His wife handles the money of the household, because otherwise he gives it away, loses it, bets it, or spends it. According to ancient tradition he takes in his kinspeople when they are in trouble, unworriedly moves in on them when in trouble himself. Americans think he is indolent, but his passivity "is a combination of natural dignity and a protest against unnecessary haste...
...this picture Bogart, though his profession as a big-shot gambler is not the most honorable vocation, is a likeable person who is unjustly accused of murder. With the police hot on his trail, he manages to clear himself, catch a ring of German spies, and acquire a beautiful girl in the bargain. The plot is fast-moving and is aided by a witty and rapid-firing script; sometimes, in fact, the dialogue moves so rapidly that some very clever remarks pass unnoticed by the audience...