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...Chicago Deadline" is a picture with a Twist. It's not an O. Henry twist, either, because you can see it coming from about the second sequence, and apparently the audience is supposed to see it. Alan Ladd, it seems, is in love with a girl who dies before he sees her for the first time...
...gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
...Americans who from disillusionment, boredom, or the simple sense of belonging nowhere and to nothing, called themselves the "lost generation." The story of the movie is largely a story of bad casting. In the role of Gatsby, which calls for extraordinary warmth and a wide range of mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley...
...Waitkus with her large, glassy blue eyes, her brain bubbled with a strange, painful excitement.. That was out at Chicago's Wrigley Field near the end of the 1946 season when Eddie was playing first for the Cubs. Ruth fell hard. She stopped loving Movie Actor Alan Ladd, wrote off a passing outfielder and decided to do something big some day about Eddie, namely, kill...
...Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...