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Nevertheless, there was something instinctive about Cohn's fancy, if not his fanny. He respected talent, and he succeeded in getting some of Hollywood's best people to work for him. Leo McCarey, Robert Rossen, Frank Capra and George Stevens directed his films; Humphrey Bogart, Jack Lemmon, William Holden, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert and Judy Holliday acted in them. And some of Cohn's features are classics: // Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, All the King's Men, Born Yesterday...
Satan Never Sleeps (20th Century-Fox). God, in Director Leo McCarey's movies, is always good-especially for business. McCarey's most famous religious pictures (Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's) were shrewdly aimed to please the millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers, and they managed to charm plenty of Protestants too. In this picture, after a run of unsuccessful shows, McCarey has once more called upon religion to perform a commercial miracle; but this time he appears to have used the Lord's name in vain. For all its superficial smirk of piety...
Since this is a commercial movie the affair cannot go much further. To end it without ending the erotic suspense, McCarey employs the old Notre Dame system: send in the second team. While the priest sits with his hands tied, a Communist colonel rapes the girl, gets her with child. But how can this appalling situation possibly produce a happy ending? Leave it to McCarey. When the girl gives birth to his son, the colonel suffers an incredible conversion to Christianity and decides to marry her. This is an example of McCarey's "warm, human touch." The colonel...
Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and Deborah agree to rid themselves of their previous encumbrances, make a date to meet again after six months devoted to finding themselves (she was once a singer; he painted). But on the day of their reunion, a screech of brakes is heard offscreen, and next thing Deborah is a cripple...
...Aldo Ray in the roles originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...