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Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...
...Brave Bulls (Columbia) is Producer-Director Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen's ambitious attempt to put Tom Lea's bestselling 1949 novel on the screen. Visually, the picture is thick with the hot, dusty atmosphere of the bull ring and the Mexican locale in which it nourishes. But beneath its colorful surface, the film is dramatically weak and confused...
...crucial at the story's climax, when the jittery matador, scorned by the crowd, betrayed by his manager (Anthony Quinn) and his girl (Miroslava), suddenly sheds his fear and calmly faces death. Coming after the defeated, bitter tone of the picture up to that point, and without Novelist Lea's introspective motivation or an adequate dramatic substitute, the climactic scene seems arbitrary and pointless...
...research director in 1941, where he developed numerous new products, including the insulating pad used on bazookas to protect the firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with the retirement of Robert W. Lea. J-M's new president: Leslie M. Cassidy, 46, formerly vice president in charge of sales. Rass-weiler's chief job will be to organize and direct a new planning board (under J-M's longtime Chief Executive Lewis H. Brown). Says Rassweiler: "We intend...
...your Oct. 16 Art section, Texas' Tom Lea was compared with such oldtime Southwesterners as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington...