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...playing the whole business as period melodrama (London, 1902). And very good melodrama it is. Ella Raines, Stanley Ridges and Henry Daniell are excellent respectively as Wife No. 2, the calmly cruel sleuth, and a neighbor who blackmails his way to death. Rosalind Ivan is satisfactorily terrifying as the Gorgon-like Wife No. 1. Sloping, suffer ing Charles Laughton has a high old histrionic time and gives the audience one -in one of his best roles since he played a similar mousy murderer in Payment Deferred...
Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley covers seven months of Barnaby's adventures. Typical episode: Gorgon answers the telephone. Barnaby's mother, calling from a neighbor's, thinks she is speaking to mischievous Barnaby...
...This is Gorgon...
...Gorgon to Barnaby: "Your mother wants me to get my FATHER...
There follows a complex, legerdemainiac series of situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...