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...TOWN BELOW (302 pp.)-Roger Lemelin, translated by Samuel Putnam-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...convinced you have somehow put the wrong cut-line under the picture of five men you claim to be "stalwarts" of the House un-American Activities Committee. . . . That picture [TIME, March 29], for my money, is a still shot from one of Alfred Hitchcock's spy-thrillers...
...faces are the calmly arrogant, anonymous faces Hitchcock always found for his sinister antagonists. Looking at them, as they stand casually in the restless sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly...
...must be a Hitchcock still shot, that's all. It can't be Mr. Thomas and his Committeemen...
...Mourning Becomes Electra" can hardly claim to be entertainment. It can be compared neither to the Hitchcock thriller that also mixes psychology and murder, nor to the "good" European film, also dramatic--but on purely human, and therefore familiar, terms. "Electra" is all O'Neill--deeply emotional, sonorous, and occasionally pretentious. Much of the picture consists of agitated, often repetitive talk, and even the general excellence of the acting cannot always keep the audience fascinated by the tortured characters who seem to keep themselves busy day and night expiating the guilt of their ancestors...