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Skelton's supporting cast is excellent. Dorothy Stickney, as a ginned-away shop lifter redeemed by delusions of mother hood, is enormously funny. Cara Williams, the love interest, plays it tough and tender with equal sureness as a little Miss Wrong who is waiting for big Mr. Right. And Kurt Kasznar is just about perfect as a pillar of the pool hall trying to act like a paterfamilias...
...Stockholm's streets. Ignoring the dangerous Swedish girls, he immediately set to practicing the two-hands championship lifts-the press, snatch, and clean and jerk.* Last week his big moment came. Hepburn faced the gargantuan defending world champion, Brooklyn's John Davis, in the heavyweight class (lifter's own weight unlimited). Planting his feet and unlimbering his tremendous biceps, Doug reached his goal. With three lifts totaling 1,030¼ Ibs., he beat Runner-Up Davis, who raised 1,007 lbs. With a herculean press of 369 lbs., Doug had broken the world's record. Officially...
...three start with the weight bar laid at the lifter's feet, and end with it held above his head, arms fully extended. In the press, the bar is held for two seconds at shoulder level, then smoothly raised the rest of the way. The snatch calls for hoisting the bar in one continuous motion. In the clean and jerk, the bar is moved upward from the shoulders by a sudden arm-stiffening motion...
Look, No Clubs! Such remission from on high could no more come to the American taxpayer than to Atlas, the Greek weight lifter. On the taxpayer's shoulders rest the defense of the free world, the salaries of 2,500,000 U.S. Government employees, the care of Eskimos, and the spaghetti supply of Naples. The American taxpayer is the latest product of aeons of human progress. From his forefathers, despots were able to extract, under club or sword or torture, a livre here and a bushel of turnips there. But every dime the American taxpayer gives up has been...
...about the production is its economy of scenery. The action all takes place within a police station, and the motley group of characters who wander in and out afford excellent comic relief between the more dramatic scenes. Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman, particularly, are exceptional as a frightened shop-lifter and a paranoiac burglar up for life...