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General Electric Theater (Sept. 26, 9-9:30 p.m.), an all-film show last year, starts off live with Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Gene Tierney, Luther Adler, Patric Knowles...
...film's producers add the cynical touch when--Patric Knowles a Britisher who plays a Britisher--shoots Angela in the back, spoiling her pretty coiffure. Knowles then sets out in a submarine with Stevens, who is again a free man. Knowles goes down with his coffin, while "Goody Goody," who should have gone down long ago, takes the deck again with the war practically in his well-starched pocket...
Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
...wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall, it dawns on her that she had better get rid of both husband and lover...