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...most of his pictures, John Garfield ends up with a bellyful of lead, dying in the heroine's arms, but in John Huston's highly publicized "We Were Strangers," he arrives at this condition in a new way. Garfield dies fighting for the people of Cuba in the revolution...
...play's central figure is Charlie Castle (John Garfield), onetime idealist and now such a whopping movie star that he is being asked to sign a 14-year contract. Fed up, Charlie wants to leave Hollywood; his wife (Nancy Kelly) is so fed up she has left him. But Charlie is being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn...
...Back to Garfield. Stubborn Chairman Scott fought back. To those who blamed the party's 1948 disaster on him, Scott let it be known that he had a secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott...
...muddleness is what Odets intended. There certainly are people like Charlie, people who have done some reading, adopted some ideals and then become confused when they couldn't make them work. But most of the time Charlie sounds like he's crossed Winchell with Shakespeare with disastrous results. John Garfield makes a very good Charlie...
...Garfield and Polonsky, who worked together on the successful Body and Soul, deal with an awesome quota of evil in Force of Evil, but the lame techniques that are tried in the film take away most of its force...