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...many a moviegoer, Elsa Lanchester is just Charles Laughton's wife; but to Hollywoodians she is the burlesqueen of what is probably the world's toniest vaudeville palace: Los Angeles' Turnabout Theater. Last week Elsa gave her 2,000th performance at Turnabout, a full house gave her a rousing curtain call, and the management gave her a party...
...Clock. A handsome, gold-filled thriller about a murdering magazine magnate; with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton (TIME, April...
Arch of Triumph (Enterprise-United Artists) is one of the outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
...Messrs. Laughton, Camera and Milestone also do the best they can, and once in a while-notably at a White Russian birthday party-the picture comes to some kind of life. But on the whole the show has a kind of pathos that is not the kind intended; the spectacle of a lot of talented people, before and behind the camera, doing their desperate best in an effort which they seem clearly to know is foredoomed...
...Clock. A handsome, gold-filled thriller about a murdering magazine magnate; with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton (TIME, April...