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...hardened in recent years into a competent and calculating performer, brings off the square-headed Maryk surprisingly well. Fred MacMurray looks a little too dumb and stiff to be the fast-talking Keefer, but Jose Ferrer, so long as he is not required to do anything more than leer, is suitably aggressive as Barney Greenwald. E. G. Marshall has a fine stretch as the trial judge advocate...
...Carmen gasps: "I cannot live a lie . . . Free I was born and free I want to die." Joseph Gotten as Canio in Pagliacci moans: "To have to act, act, when my brain whirls in an agony of madness! . . . Change into grins your sobs and suffering, change into a leer your sighs and your tears." Dennis King as Rigoletto shouts: "Unarmed though I be, I'll kill you, I warn you!" But the familiar music (in familiar performances by Rise Stevens, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren) restores the order of things. Most acceptable acting job is done by Deborah Kerr...
...Alice and Milly [then] put miniature sets of false teeth into their mouths and leer at each other; I confiscate the teeth. Then Alice puts a pair of spectacles made of scarlet wire on her impudent nose and grins round ... I send her out . . . The class . . . call: 'Goodbye, Alice−aren't you lucky to leave' this boring lesson...
Unfortunately the film fails, like most of its predecessors, to exploit Jerry's unusual gift for "gallows laughter," the rich, traditional Jewish humor of the schlemiel* which he is sacrificing for the easy money in pun and jargon and in the barefaced leer...
...movie offers strikingly Technicolored views of the sea, the island and its people, swimming in their blue lagoon, climbing tall palms, and doing their intricately graceful Sasa, classical dance of Samoa. Unlike many other Hollywoodians at large in the South Seas, Director Mark Robson never permits his camera to leer at the native girls as if they were so many Dorothy Lamours, but tells the story with a simple directness that matches the islanders' disarming ways. And Composer Dimitri Tiomkin has written a haunting melody that should do as well as his High Noon theme on the juke boxes...