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...long ride ends; say to us where the young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs...
...chasing two frightened lovers through thousands of suspenseful feet of film to a slam-bang finish. This time he turns his formula and the police on Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and hounds them expertly through a hotel lobby, a railway station, a train. But thanks to Ben Hecht's script, the real hue & cry is in the hero's mind. Miss Bergman, disguised in hornrimmed glasses, scrambles grimly after Hero Peck through the dark corridors of his paranoid guilt complex. The result is often good entertainment, but it does not tingle with Hitchcock's usual sustained...
...town of Merino, Colo., Albert Stark rattled along with a truckload of fertilizer. Some 1,400 miles away, in San Francisco, the World Security conference was scarcely two hours old; Mutual's commentators were up to their ears in commentating, and the Blue was airing an ambitious Ben Hecht dramatization of "the little people's" hopes for the world's future...
Blue will feature "interpretive" broadcasts by Sumner Welles, newly hired as the network's "adviser on world peace," and full color reporting by Ben Hecht, Hedda Hopper, Orson Welles, and "other Hollywood personalities...
...Seven Lively Arts is oversized and overstuffed. At times the whole thing seems less like the seven lively arts (which presumably include dressmaking and sex) than like seven luxury hotels. The big names frantically jostle one another as though they were playing "Going to Jerusalem"-with Dialogue Writers Ben Hecht and Moss Hart and Song Writer Cole Porter the first to be done out of chairs...