Word: orzazewski
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...movie, the mother (Kasia Orzazewski) has scrubbed floors and half-starved herself during those years to raise $5,000 which she hopes might persuade someone into giving new information about the old, dead case. When the reporter (James Stewart) first looks her up, he has no doubts of her son's (Richard Conte) guilt; he merely plays her story for its human interest. It is good "circulation copy" and he follows it up industriously. But soon he begins to smell something fishy...
...players try to be as true to life as the living city, and many of them come very close to it. James Stewart manages to mug a little now & then, but by & large his performance is exceptionally modest, and as good as his best. The Polish actress, Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick...
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