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...Nurse Susan Hayward against African tarantulas, black-magic practitioners and warlike natives. Without any noticeable change from her recent performances as Jane Froman and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Susan manages to remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...
Second Chance (RKO Radio) is the seventh chance 3-D has had to prove that it is here to stay. For the seventh time it has proved itself only a novel gimmick. The third dimension, however, is the least thing wrong with Second Chance, a picture with Robert Mitchum and Linda Darnell in the leading roles. According to some touching publicity releases, Bob and Linda are trying to communicate "a love story that is a pattern for faith...
...spiritual light that comes into Mitchum's eyes when he gets a glom of Darnell, or then again it may only be the glare of some passing headlights. At any rate, it is fairly certain that Prizefighter Mitchum never had faith in anything but his good right hand. He loses that faith when he kills a man in the ring, and heads across the border to forget about it. There he meets Linda, for whom faith seems to be nothing more than confidence that she can keep one wiggle ahead of Jack Palance, a really frightening gunman who offers...
From then on things go from bad to worse for the beautiful killer. Although she manages to elude the law, retribution catches up with her. When the family chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) spurns her love because he does not approve of the way she goes around demolishing people and automobiles, she decides to kill herself. With Mitchum in the car, she throws the gear into reverse and goes catapulting back over the cliff where her parents died. At this point Angel Face comes to an end, having just about run out of both actors and automobiles...
Instead, Big Bob Mitchum, the sloe-eyed superman, makes backhanded love to Susan Hayward, one of the lusty men's busty women, while hubby Arthur Kennedy proceeds to win the cowboy crown and the money...