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What they seem to like is what Earl Wilson calls the three Bs-Booze, Busts, Behinds. (Sample Wilson leer: Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...
...even five-corpses are going to be too many for one feature-length film. But as soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...
Zany Clark, of the sudden grrrr, the steady leer, the carousel-horse lope, is cast as a numbers racketeer hiding out from the FBI in Mexico. Pursuit of that fine fiction drives him into some startling new disguises. As a strolling musician he flutes and frolics; as a bucktoothed Indian squaw (see cut) he joins in a happy warble, Count Your Blessings...
That overflowing wastebasket in Matthew S-32 is the result of a mice scare. The cleaning lady refused to go near the thing for a week after seeing a rodent leap out of it and leer at her one morning...
...TIMElier subcaption: King Leer...