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...come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor, Alan Dent, have gone out of their way to save a small jewel (The bird of dawning singeth all night long). But now & then, apparently for the sake of pace, they needlessly throw something overboard...
...eschews wild oats for the sake of Crown Jewel, a mare as beautifully black as he is white, and whinnies nervous encouragement as she trains for the trotting races. (P.S.: she does all right.) Left to their own devices, these glorious animals are a treat to watch. But too much time is wasted on relatively dull human beings: the Healthy Juvenile who owns Crown Jewel (Robert Arthur); his tomboy girl friend (Peggy Cummins, prettily poured into dungarees); her growling, boozy grandfather (a deadly conventional role all but redeemed by Charles Coburn's restraint); Burl Ives (singing a weird, savage...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
...plot begins with the murder of a blonde in an apartment on West 83rd Street and ends with the murderer's demise about a week later on the Williamsburg Bridge. In between is an intricate, tense story involving a number of jewel thieves and two untiring detectives. The camera roams pleasantly over most of New York as the detectives close in, and Albert Maltz, the scriptwriter, has even provided moments of comic relief in his caressing tour of the city...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...