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Betrayed (M-G-M). The backgrounds for this film are beautiful. They were shot in Holland, in Eastman Color, by Cameraman F. A. Young, and they bathe the eye in that warm brown light the old Dutch masters loved. But when the story gets under way, it is as if a tired beetle were waddling across a canvas by Vermeer...
Suddenly Lana remembers: "We mustn't be selfish." The war, you know, and all that. So away she flies to Holland to make-or maybe have-a liaison with Victor Mature, the well-known resistance leader. Somebody's resistance is low, it would seem, for when Gable pops in one day, Lana is snoozing comfily in Victor's bed. "Of course," Clark huffs, "outside working hours you're your own mistress." But shortly thereafter Clark becomes convinced that Lana is betraying Victor's intimate secrets to the Germans, and orders her arrest. It takes...
Numbering nearly 90 in all, they were representatives of the present ruling houses of Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; disinherited princelings from Italy, France, Spain, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; dynastic relics from kingdoms whose thrones had long since ceased to exist: Bourbon-Parmas, Mecklenburgs, Schaumburg-Lippes, Hesses, Thurn und Taxis, and Hohenlohe-Langenburgs...
...Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped Wilson, returned early to carouse with friends. "You've got a fast horse and a long loop, sheriff," said Tom Holland...
...Europe, MGM's Executive Suite was being billed by any other name, largely because the American meaning of the title has no exact equivalent in any European language. Translated examples: in France, The Tower of the Ambitious Ones; in Holland, The Top Man; in Sweden, A Chair Is Vacant; in Italy, Thirst for Power; in Germany, The Schemers...