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Delicacy or Violence. Mastermind of Matinee is volatile, grey-eyed Albert McCleery, 44, an ex-paratrooper who runs his big assembly-line operation as if he were a field marshal. From his studio in a converted Hollywood drugstore, McCleery shuttles from one rehearsal to the next (five go on at once), and blocks out his shows, working with about 50 scripts, six to eight weeks ahead. His editorial staff-far bigger than that of most publishing houses-includes a file of 250 contributing authors, rewrite men and story "doctors," ten editors and readers. McCleery's biggest headaches begin...
...burglary is over, Director-Writer Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's imagination fails him. The remainder of the film, with its routine kidnaping, love interest and gang war, seems to have been made by a sadly inferior second team. Jean Servais is coolly efficient as the criminal mastermind, and Carl Mohner and Robert Manuel play his talented assistants. Director Writer Dassin is on screen, too, as an imported Italian safecracker who brings a Latin flourish to his work. Perhaps Dassin spread himself too thin in the picture, but he gathers enough honors in his memorable silent sequence to satisfy...
Carmine De Sapio, 47, boss of Tammany Hall, New York's secretary of state, the mastermind behind Averell Harriman. De Sapio controls almost all of New York State's massive 98 votes, is combing the hinterlands for more. He makes frequent trips to Washington to woo Southern legislators, leaves courtship in other areas to Harriman lieutenants who do not suffer the Tammany stigma...
...time he is set to mastermind the election for governor of a drunken windbag named John Cromwell, Freesmith has developed into a full clinical picture of an icy-hearted opportunist in action. He figures that fear plus hate equals power. By manipulating the fear of poverty of California's "senior citizens" and exploiting general hatred of Communism, he hopes to become the real governor of California. In a not quite credible solution, his pal Hank removes the hard hand of Mike Freesmith from the public weal...
Died. Frederick Joubert ("Fritz") Duquesne, 78, South African-born mastermind of one of the biggest (33 men and women) spy networks ever uncovered in the U.S., inveterate Anglophobe, who in 1942 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for Nazi espionage; in a New York City hospital on Welfare Island. A soldier of fortune who played his crafty hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed...