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...Jack Lemmon is the hero-a buck private and bigtime operator in a unit waiting to be shipped home from Europe after World War II. TV's Ernie Kovacs is the villain-the unit's second-in-command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...
...plot turns on the old snooper-duper situation. Lemmon & Co. are determined to have a mad ball in a neighboring village, and invite all the nurses -even though it's breaking the book for enlisted men and officers to "socialize."' But that dog Kovacs. a fellow with a suspicious nature and an investigative turn of mind, soon begins to sniff the wind. "They're up to something!" he mutters. "I can smell it! I can taste it!" Day after day his spies report-nothing. Day after day, in snap inspections, he finds-nothing...
...Rooney, the boys have their ball, and the rat gets caught in his own trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded with German prisoners. When the M.P.s, tipped off by Lemmon, accuse him of engineering an escape, Kovacs blusters and pulls rank. Alas, nobody will believe him, and he is hauled off to the stockade, a broken man who can only point piteously at a big, black, fiercely aggressive mustache that no longer seems to impress anybody...
...what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer's villainy with the charm of skilled Actor Jack Lemmon. All the Lemmon twists could not make palatable a character who genially blackmailed his loving mother while planning the death of his brother for the insurance. Lacking either the spoofing playfulness of Kind Hearts and Coronets or the intrigue of the Borgia capers, the play amounted to a catalogue of crime with...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all sharply observed by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...