Word: omeletic
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Calling to mind the time honored maxim of Professor Merriam (Mr. Jim Rafferty's ward, it seems) about cracking eggs, we must break quite a few to mix this week's omelet. The atmosphere is electric now that one doesn't know but what one's best friend may weaken and make plans for a wedding this February. All caution has been cast to the winds. The only safe way to enumerate the prospects is to gay that we know absolutely that "hermit" Dean Brooks and "leach" White are not planning anything. As for the rest, well--anything can happen...
Dark Waters (United Artists) has all the makings of a first-class thriller and now & then seems likely to become one. But the grade-A eggs it breaks never quite make an omelet...
Tall in the Saddle (RKO-Radio) is a western omelet made of the traditional ingredients and served up with a trifle more than the traditional style and fun. A hard young newcomer to town (John Wayne) renders a bruising account of himself in barroom, street and poker brawls, smokes out the skunk who killed his boss and, in the course of preventing a dove-soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin...
...sent west to Cody College for a semester in celibacy. Cinemactor Rooney is comically slapped around by cowboys and horses until he learns his lesson, saves the college from folding by staging a coeducational rodeo, wins the dean's niece (Judy Garland), and escorts her through a western omelet of dance routines to the strains of I Got Rhythm...
...this does not necessarily make an evenly textured omelet. But, spiced with a forceful commentary by ex-Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew ("Nothing less than all-out effort will suffice. The future is ours-or theirs. There is no other choice"), the picture leaves no doubt about the toughness of the fight that lies ahead...