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...North Frederick (20th Century-Fox). Sex is the fire of life to Author John O'Hara, and through the fire his characters must pass to their destruction or salvation. But sex, at the rate O'Hara burns, is way too hot for the average U.S. movie exhibitor to handle; and so the producers of this picture, based on O'Hara's latest bestseller (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), have carefully put out the fire with a steady stream of eyewash -most of it, as a matter of fact, squeezed out of the soggier sections of the book...
...Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
After that, is there anything left for Joe Chapin? O'Hara being O'Hara, there is sex, and Joe has it with his daughter's roommate (Suzy Parker) when he goes to New York on a business trip. And after sex? A little whisky fills the aching void, and then a little more...
...also want to use our place as a medium of expression for other artists," she continued, pointing to the paintings of Tom O'Hara which are currently on exhibit. "We plan to change exhibits every three weeks or so, but we will not show just paintings. We also plan to exhibit photographs and other forms of art work...
...little been done with so much by so many as in Pal Joey. The movie retains the essence of Rodgers' and Hart's excellent score for the musical which played Broadway in 1940-41 and again in 1952-53. However, the original script, written by John O'Hara, has been largely scrapped for an implausible story whose dialogue consists of inane crudities...