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...heartless, self-pitying sadist, who is out to rob his own brother of the sealskins aboard his boat, but whose plans are somewhat complicated by the appearance of a writer on his ship. In this latest movie version, the plot is further complicated by the presence of John Garfield and Ida Lupino, two fugitives from the law who provide the inevitable love interest...
...dragging in Ida Lupino and John Garfield, the movie stoops to the level of most other pictures; it must have love interest regardless of how the plot suffers. But what makes this situation even worse is the fact that these two lovers are just what they have been in almost every other picture they ever appeared in: hunted fugitives, misunderstood by Society, and asking only that they be given the opportunity to Start Life Anew...
...such sustained mayhem has been thoroughly tested: this is the sixth cinema version of the Jack London novel in 30 years. To man the unpleasant cast (only woman is Ida Lupino), the ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and Gene Lockhart. Guided by the extravagant hand of Director Michael Curtiz, The Sea Wolf's latest treatment stresses the psychological quirks of Wolf Larsen (Robinson), skipper of the scavenger ship Ghost, a sadistic tyrant who likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems when...
When Model Patricia Garfield tossed a cocktail party at Manhattan's Stork Club, Captain Elliott Roosevelt arrived from Wright Field, Ohio, in full-dress Army Air Corps togs. This, he explained with the assistance of Stork Club press agents, was the proper dress for a captain upon his "initial" appearance at any club...
Methodist. Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops: "Last spring the Methodist General Conference took the stand that 'the Methodist Church will not officially support, endorse or participate in war.' This is a more strongly pacifist attitude than would be taken by the majority of ministers today. . . . Large numbers [now] believe the future of Christianity itself is related to the defeat of this new religion of totalitarian force...