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...Fighter (Alex Gottlieb; United Artists) is a fairly flabby film version of Jack London's 1911 story, The Mexican, about a peon who stands up under a brutal beating in an American prize ring so that he can buy guns for the Mexican revolution with the winner-take-all purse...
...picture embellishes the London story with a long, sleepy flashback and some syrupy romantic interest (Vanessa Brown). As a Mexican guerrilla, Lee Cobb gives an intense performance, while Richard Conte is impassioned but too dashing as the peon. In spite of a vigorously photographed ring climax, The Fighter packs little dramatic punch...
...they usually agree that the 1908-35 regime of Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela was unsurpassed in greed, cruelty and lust. Ignorant, fierce-mustached Góomez brought to Caracas' Miraflores Palace the bandit morals of the 19th Century caudillos he admired, the manners of the peon he was, the behavior of the bulls he raised. The nation's treasury and the nation's women were his; he liked to share these boons with his bastard brothers and with the 100 or so bastard sons he sired...
...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
Charles Blake, who played in "This is the Army" in 1946 and who has specialized in directing amateur shows, will direct and produce "Forever Peon." No dance director or costumer has been named as yet, since casting does not start until the spring term...