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...Cliff Robertson, as Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, eschews the J.F.K. mannerisms of speech and gesture, but nothing else has been left out of this reverently made grade-B picture about the President's wartime exploits...
...Cliff Robertson, as Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, eschews the J.F.K. mannerisms of speech and gesture, but nothing else has been left out of this reverently made grade-B action picture about the President's wartime exploits...
...Grade-B Thriller. The campaign reached a peak with the arrival in Algiers last month of six men from Italy's state-owned radio-TV network, RAI. Scarcely had the newcomers registered at the flea-bitten Hotel Aletti when S.A.O. gunmen invaded the hotel and, under the studiously indifferent gaze of hotel employees, not only made off with $8,000 worth of RAI equipment but kidnaped an Italian newsman as well. Fifteen minutes too late, the armed French riot police showed...
Paul Douglas plays the cloddish but honest fisherman husband with a good deal of earnestness, while Barbara Stanwyck gives one of her regulation good performances of a bad girl. As the cynical lover, Robert Ryan plays a motion-picture projectionist who speaks some grade-B movie dialogue, e.g., to Barbara: "Your husband's the salt of the earth, but he's not the right seasoning for you." Also on hand, in a minor role: shapely Marilyn Monroe. as a fish-cannery employee who bounces around in a succession of slacks, bathing suits and sweaters...
Barrel of Monkeys. The blonde's name was Barbara Payton, 25, who has been playing around Hollywood for three years in & out of grade-B pictures. Her latest is called The Bride of the Gorilla. What she mainly does is to run, scantily clad, through jungles while an ape-man pursues her. It also came natural for her to be seen cooing with Franchot Tone in the places where Hollywood people go to be seen cooing with each other. During a court battle with his exwife, another blonde named Jean Wallace, Tone was asked about Barbara. "How many times...