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Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Alan Ladd in Chicago Deadline...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Alan Ladd in Motive for Murder...
Varsity summary: Reese (H) defeated Ladd, 3-0; Foss (H) defeated Lyman, 3-1; Randall (H) defeated Witherby, 3-0; Doermann (H) defeated Anderson, 3-0; Williams defeated Root...
...anti-male message-that the city is a jungle of ravening wolves-is hackneyed, but the heroine (Donna Reed) is original and haunting: she is a sweet girl who simply wanders changelessly and sadly through assorted jobs, cities, and love affairs. All that Ladd manages to discover is that she was a much-dated girl who always remembered to bake a birthday cake for her brother. Also, it seems that she took up with almost anybody who made a pass at her because she "felt sorry for people...
...words, throw their eyes around as though they were at a tennis match. All the same, the film has moments of hard cynicism. The credibly forlorn scenes between the heroine and her brother (Arthur Kennedy) barely suggest a relationship that the Johnston Office might have scrutinized more closely. And Ladd's scenes with a cold and seedy blonde (June Havoc) show a consistent disconcern with what Hollywood knows as real love. Trying for and missing the punch of Double Indemnity, waltz-paced Deadline is further debilitated by Ladd's paralyzed imitation of Alan Ladd...