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...accepted cinema statutes, the hero should get the girl. In every third and a half scene, the moviegoer settles back and breaths, "Ah, now he gets the girl." But, faced with the alternatives of following form or preserving the sanctity of marriage, producers Wald and Krasna chose the latter. The girl married the heavy before the picture begins...
...Lusty Men (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a cowboy picture without rustlers or a sheriff. Its subject is the modern cowpoke who makes a handsome but hazardous living being kicked by broncos and gored by steers on the rodeo circuit. The picture has some rousing scenes of rough-riding thrills & spills photographed at the Pendleton, Tucson, Livermore, Cheyenne and Spokane rodeos, but the story that runs through these sequences soon develops a limp...
Clash by Night (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a vapid variation on the old triangle. Based on Clifford Odets' 1941 play about a Staten Island husband who kills his wife's lover, the picture adds a sunshiny ending, a Pacific-coast fishing-town setting, and some fishy dramatics...
Married. Erie Galbraithe Jolson, 27, fourth and last wife of the late Al Jolson, who left her $1,000,000; and Norman Krasna, 42, Hollywood producer; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...other stars--Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, and Audrey Totter--perform their bit parts adequately and usually evoke additional pathos. But the only tears really worth shedding are for Wald and Krasna, who wasted so much talent on such an incredibly trite plot...