Word: granger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
...good bit above the average. Granite-faced Dana Andrews does all right when the part gives him a chance; Dorothy McGuire is quite pleasing when not embroidered with her sickly-sweet smile; Peggy Dow is handicapped by bad writing of her part, but bears up nobly; and Farley Granger gives quite a good performance as a reforming black sheep...
...stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife but uses the husband's unwitting help to break it off when...
...tension of the opening sequence unwinds steadily in a dawdling intrigue of dishonor among thieves. Granger takes the painting to Tunis, where he meets silkenly villainous Art Dealer George Sanders ("You know I detest violence"), who has commissioned him to steal it. Granger tells Sanders that the painting was accidentally destroyed and proposes making forgeries instead for the wealthy collector's trade...
...Granger then dupes strait-laced Artist Pier (Teresa) Angeli into making the first copy. Sanders plays along with the scheme while wisely acting on the theory that Granger plans to sell the real painting himself. Ultimately, after each double-cross has been doubled and redoubled, Scoundrel Granger is regenerated by the love of a good woman-the kind of feat that angelic Actress Angeli may be forever destined by Hollywood to perform. Ironically, Scripter-Director Richard Brooks is the author of a current novel (The Producer) in which a moviemaker grapples with a front-office demand for an ending that...