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...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...
...Crimes Commission by hiding out in a quiet little New England town. In public, he looks, talks and behaves like a pallid prep-school professor. But his extracurricular time is fairly well filled between 1) murdering anybody who knows enough to give him away, 2) honeymooning with nice, unsuspecting Loretta Young and 3) plotting World War III for the greater glory of Germany...
...imply that the picture is merely a run-of-the-morgue whodunit. It is a notch above that. There is only a brief question of Orson's black villainy. The movie succeeds because it manages to keep you squirming over a couple of far more chilling questions. Does Loretta know too much for the safety of her own pretty neck? Will G-man Edward G. Robinson get the goods on Orson before all hell breaks loose...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...
Along Came Jones (Gary Cooper, Loretta Young; TIME, July...