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...Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Pandora, Actress Gardner is a cruelly flighty American girl who drives men to distraction at a Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...competitive dailies) has risen to a startling 1,300. Is this bad for journalism? Many newsmen, and such outside critics as the famed Hutchins Commission (TIME, March 31, 1947), have long said so. Last week an able defense of monopoly papers came from John Cowles, who, with his brother Gardner, owns the Des Moines Register (morning) and Tribune (afternoon) and the Minneapolis Star (afternoon) and Tribune (morning), which have no competition in their fields...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
...that time, nothing can save the picture. But Cinemactress Gardner gets able support from Actor Douglas, who plays a scoundrel with relish, and a handsome variety of low-necked costumes get able support from Cinemactress Gardner...