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...Wholesale (20th Century-Fox) waters down and sugars up Jerome Weidman's merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
...Designer Hayward lures a top salesman...
...Wynn. The Roxy, 50th and Seventh, proclaims Bird of Paradise its greatest Easter show; the South Sea island idyll involves Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, and Jeff Chandler. The Paramount offers Bob Hope in Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid, with Billy Eckstine on stage. Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward supply standard Western drama in Rawhide at the Rivoll, another Times Square house...
Will Power be able to get to the pistol that he knows is lying behind the horse trough? Can he smuggle a note to the unsuspecting drivers of a stagecoach that stops briefly for a meal and a change of horses? Will Hostage Hayward lose her virtue to the leering villain (Jack Elam) who keeps a lecher...
...them, are designed to stretch the situation's rudimentary suspense to the limit. Scripter Dudley Nichols and Director Henry Hathaway misjudge the breaking point. Their intentions quickly grow too transparent, their maneuverings too forced and artificial. In spite of good, sun-baked photography and effective performances by Actress Hayward and Dean Jagger, as a muttering horse thief, Rawhide also suffers because the ringleader of its heavies is played by Hugh Marlowe in the correct, mellifluous accents of a good radio announcer...