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Scripters Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart have added a minimum of embroidery to this story. As Snyder, James Cagney has his best role in years and serves it well, mounting to successive levels of exasperation with as much ease and artistry as Bix Beiderbecke ever displayed in reaching the high note on his cornet. Cameron Mitchell makes the luckless Alderman a consistent and believable hu man being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends...
...Miss Isobel MacDonald, an energetic Scottish schoolmarm, spent a year in Manhattan teaching English and history at a flossy private grade school for girls. Back in Britain last week, she summed up her experience in a BBC broadcast. Her central theme: it was a "fight to the finish...
...bound volume in the Notable British Trials series, 17-year-old Donald escaped conviction for the murder: the jury's verdict, under a useful Scots law, was "Not Proven." But he went to prison for forgery, and after a year, emerged to elope with 17-year-old Isobel Bonar. The honeymoon was scarcely over when the young couple were indicted for fraud. Isobel was acquitted; Donald got nine more months...
...themselves, lived high, wide & handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen. Donald went on to join the navy, served as a torpedo-boat commander...
...between plugs for the heady Brazilian climate, Lund falls off polo ponies and Lana exchanges passionate glances with Ricardo Montalban, who plays a bare-chested rancher with a coyly devilish grandfather (Louis Calhern). Since the plot offers no clear reason why the movie should run 104 Technicolored minutes, Scenarist Isobel Lennart has thrown in such extraneous items as a funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock figure of fun), and assorted Latin American production numbers. Lana's final solution to her money problems...