Word: lupino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom. He finds it for good on a lonely peak in the mountains...
...Light That Failed (Paramount). Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Dudley Digges struggle with Kiplingesque stoicism through the somewhat dated heroics and stout fella philosophy of Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...