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Only slightly disguised by Paramount's brighteyed little idea men, "California" members to fool Western fans for about thirty seconds before it crupts into a Fitzpatrick Travelogue neatly tucked into the same old roasted saddlebag that serves as standard fare in all horse operas...
California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
...with 13 of the top 60 moneymakers, collected the most rental ($47,250,000). Next in line were Paramount (twelve pictures at $44,650,000), 20th Century-Fox (ten pictures at $35 million), RKO (eight pictures at $30 million...
...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...
...vastly irritating to many a U.S. citizen. But to the citizens of the world it was worse than irritating; it seemed dangerous - as if the giant were actually in danger of toppling. For this reason, the question of why the U.S. had faltered -and how much - became of paramount importance to everyone...