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Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...
...Wanamaker is an Italian-American laborer, Loa Padovani his wife and bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...
Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
Near Turin, Cinemactor Orson Welles was feeling shaky. He and his new friend, Italian Cinemactress Lea Padovani, were crash-landed in a pasture on their way to a benefit. No bones broken...
...secession movement is not anti-Fascist nor anti-Mussolini. It is just plain antipathy to the Nationalist Party element which was absorbed into Fascismo. The Neapolitans want a thoroughbred Fascista Party and will not fall in line with the northern organizations in effecting the coalition. Captain Padovani himself said: " It is absolutely untrue that either myself or other Fascisti in this (Naples) district are disaffected with the Government. My admiration for Premier Mussolini and my devotion to the Fascista movement are unchanged and untouched by personal differences about Greco, which have arisen because he is imbued with the old ideas...