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...Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
They will be supplemented by returnees Ted Bullard, John Ager, and Vincent Brant, the latter a strong contender for the number one slot, as well as last year's Freshman aces Hillard Hughes, Greer Nicholl, and jack Frey...
Desire Me (MGM) is a rather peremptory title that is taken pretty seriously by Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum and Richard Hart, all of whom pretend, with varying degrees of success, to be French...
...fairs; but most of the picture smacks of the studio. There is a beautiful stone house on a beautiful stretch of shore: it looks like a fine place to live in, but the principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum tries a Gallic gesture now & then but most of the time he just looks sleepy. No audience will blame...
Certainly first on a long list of totally impossible features (which includes acting, plot, direction, and even the title) is Greer Garson, an old Hollywood warhorse who still seems to be trading on her "Mrs. Miniver" Oscar. Miss Garson in "Desire Me" gives one of the finest exhibitions on record of the old, or Smithfield variety of acting. She uses all the ancient tricks of the trade the mobile eyebrows; the long, significant pauses; the staring eyes; the mighty gasps of emotion. In fact, she can't even stand still and listen without overacting...