Word: miscasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK A Bookie in Command In a crowded Brooklyn courtroom one day last week, all the principals seemed to be playing the wrong roles. The judge was ranting, the hard-boiled D.A. was sobbing and a bookie was looking down his nose at both of them. This miscast scene was the unexpected end of New York's biggest police-graft trial since...
...production is far from happy. Even its most talented performers fall short of themselves: Clive Brook's sufferings are too mannered, and Margaret Phillips, in a Katharine Hepburn-ish role, seems decidedly miscast...
Actor Fitzgerald's Irish whimsy leavens his role of a wise old police inspector, but the rest of the characters are cut & dried. Holden seems miscast as a railroad detective with a reputation for toughness. Since he and Heroine Nancy Olson begin to bicker almost as soon as they meet, cinemaddicts will instantly sense a case of love at first sight. Director Rudolph Mate deploys his actors and camera with workmanlike skill, and the authentic settings help to give much of the film a fair degree of suspense...
...form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast for her main role as the governess in the Douglas household. For a character who should be strong-willed enough to attract Douglas, she manages to make most of her behavior seem spineless and effeminate...
...Richard Uviller provided the best comedy of the evening. Although they overdid their English accents just a bit, their comical pomposity was splendid in spots. Uviller, particularly, showed real stage presence which must be the result of considerable past acting experience. As the dullard Blandina, Marilyn Weleh was miscast; she was really much too attractive to play a girl nobody was interested...