Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rates a B-plus for its efforts with a B-picture plot: the old one about the detective who bores from within a big-city racket to get the goods on the mystery man at the top. It is full of sluggings, shootings and characters with fake identities; the mastermind is the last anyone would suspect, and, at a venerably crucial moment in the final reel, the hero's girl falls into the villain's clutches...
Producer Michael Balcon (Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets) has turned out a picture in the best tradition of satirical good humor. Alec Guinness, recently the victim of six murders in Kind Hearts, makes a thoroughly satisfactory criminal mastermind. Though remaining British to the core, he somehow achieves an almost Latin intensity in his role of a little man in happy revolt against society...
...Woman (RKO) is a somewhat lumpy blend of slapstick comedy and dead-serious melodrama. Gambler Robert Mitchum, after being alternately wooed and walloped by gangsters, finds himself in an isolated Mexican resort trying to cope with a plot that defies analysis. While awaiting the arrival of the criminal mastermind (Raymond Burr), Mitchum patches up a newlyweds' quarrel; exchanges terse dialogue and melting looks with bosomy Jane Russell; plays straight man for Vincent Price, a hammy Hollywood star...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
Haughton was the great mastermind of the time and when he resigned from the head coaching position in 1916 his teams had given up a total of 19 points to Yale opponents, while scoring 119 themselves. Haughton's great achievement, the winning of the Big three title for four straight years, 1912-15, was never challenged until Princeton duplicated the feat this year...