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...Great Impostor (Universal-International) is intended as an amiably wacky comedy of false pretenses. Adapted from Robert Crichton's bestselling biography, the picture dramatizes-and vulgarizes-a few of the more lurid episodes in the various and fascinating lives of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the one-man Who's Who (TIME...
...with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins the Royal Canadian Navy as a doctor, requests active service, performs spectacularly as a battle surgeon in Korean waters, gets his name and picture in the papers, finds himself exposed as an impostor and hailed as a Walter Mitty who makes his daydreams come true...
Unhappily, Demara is not a suitable figure of fun. He is a disturbed man, and no matter how cheerfully the moviemaker tells it, The Great Impostor is a sick joke. Like most sick jokes, it isn't funny...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* In The Impostor, a woman has hoped for six years for the return of a missing husband; a bearded hospital outpatient comes along and convinces her that he is her man. With Ann Sheridan and Jean Pierre Aumont...
After the incident, San Ildefonso's Father Narciso Seguer wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...