Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With pathetic hopefulness some Hollywood mogul threw a consistent hit team together with some weak music and a farcical plot, cooked it for 90 minutes and called it a musical. "You Were Never Lovelier" just never made the grade. The title tune has had some success as a hit, but other-wise there is only the flashing agility of Fred Astaire's feet, and all of Rita Hayworth in some-thing filmy under a full moon. Even the dance sequences are mediocre except for the torrid "Shorty George." A musical without the music is just another miscarriage...
Besides Kane, there is Bob Odell, brother of the Eli mogul, another man who can carry the mail...
...Chandni Chauk troops were drawn up under the old Mogul Fort built by Shah Jahan, who also built the Taj Mahal. (Inside the Fort, where the Shah kept his harem, the walls are inscribed: "If there is a heaven, this is it, this is it!") At the other end of the area, mounted police faced Congress adherents packed in the Clock Tower Square...
Akbar, a contemporary of Shakespeare, ruled as a Moslem-invader emperor, was India's first Great Mogul. "He was very autocratic, and had uncontrolled power," which he used to consolidate the nation. "In a sense he might be considered to be the father of Indian nationalism." In addition, he had other remarkable traits -among them "his boundless curiosity and his search for truth. He seems to have been convinced that truth was no monopoly of any religion or sect, and he proclaimed that his avowed principle was one of universal toleration in religion...
Largely because Edward Arnold makes a convincing underworld mogul and Edward G. Robinson a passable newspaper editor, "Unholy Partners" is a fairly entertaining cross between the rise of a modern tabloid and the familiar gangster story. If they had cut the pretty blurbs about the ethics of American journalism, this film would have been a well paced cops-and-robbers epic. As it stands, the action sags hopelessly about every fifteen minutes and Hollywood getting out a newspaper remains strictly authentic Hollywood, strictly unauthentic journalism. Laraine Day's presence is welcome, not so much because she loves Robinson bravely...