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...hysterical warning that "Invasion U.S.A. will scare the pants off you," everyone leaves the R.K.O. Boston fully clothed. The film, a clumsy propaganda package, is never plausible and only occasionally exciting. It opens in a New York bar, where a cattle baron, a pompous Congressman, and a selfish industrialist are ridiculing America's war preparations. After a professional seer has given them visions of a vanquished America, these men leave the bar sadder but wiser. The audience leaves only sadder...
...Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies and swampers." When Arkansas tried to lure new industry to one small town, it got a blunt answer from a Detroit industrialist: "The main thing the town is proud of is that it was the home of six Confederate generals. You don't have adequate schools, recreational facilities, and even the streets and alleys...
CHARLES RUFFIN HOOK JR., 38, vice president in charge of personnel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., to be Deputy Postmaster General. Son of a wealthy Ohio industrialist (now board chairman of Armco Steel Corp.), handsome Charlie Hook married a Morgan heiress, is a popular and ornamental member of Cleveland society...
Richardson, who won the New York critics' award, treats his role with a remarkable restraint. Ridgeway is not a scientist himself; he is a single-minded industrialist who carries scientists, designers, and pilots along in the wake of his enthusiasm. He has no sympathy with failure or timidity, and although he suffers at his son-in-law's death, one feels that he considers it a cheap price for the ultimate gain. This is a difficult part to play. Some actors might make Ridgeway a bare, two-dimensional character, since Terrence Rattigan's script alone does not delineate him sufficiently...
GEORGE MAGOFFIN HUMPHREY, 62, lawyer and industrialist...