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Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
China (Paramount) manages to make one of the most impressive races on earth seem like a corny subject. It stars recently drafted Alan Ladd and gazelle-eyed Loretta Young in as thick a glossary of cliches as may be collected currently from any U.S. screen. The film is ripe for the burlesque that the wandering team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope might have given...
Whether, he's breaking the hearts of beautiful women, matter of factly beating up his double crossing fellow gangsters, or filing his nails with a hacksaw, Alan Ladd and his head of hair manage to remain calm and collected. Or perhaps the word is suave. But at any rate, "Lucky Jordan," which possesses neither a first rate plot nor a cast of any note, is a first rate film...
What is particularly attractive about "Lucky Jordan" is its sincere effort to be insincere, a happy sequence of events bound together only by superman Alan Ladd and his beautiful head of hair. In the opening scene, he is lucky enough to have his "double" shot instead of himself, just as later in the evening he is lucky enough not to be at home when those naughty men come and torture his would-be mother...
...shooting gallery and doubles up for a crooked fortune teller, who has gotten Ray Milland in trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot and rollicking pace, you wen't have a dull moment...