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...when the film gets away from its cozy palship with God, it generates a Gorkian power in chronicling the rise and fall and rise again of a grade-A juvenile delinquent from Manhattan's Lower East Side. It also gives a merited big chance to Actor Paul Newman, 31. who seemed doomed to walk forever in the shadow of Marlon Brando. Newman is still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does...
...Atomic City. Neat B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...