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Blossoms in the Dust (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart; TIME, July...
...Hunt (20th Century-Fox) opens quite pastorally somewhere in the mountains of Bavaria. Through this silent, forested wilderness slips a renowned English big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon). At the edge of a ravine he shrouds himself in shrubbery, peers across and spots his quarry. With meticulous care he fits a telescopic sight to his handsome sporting rifle, sets it for 550 yards, notes the wind drift, draws a cautious bead, and smiles a hunter's smile. Caught full in the sight is the left breast of the world's most wary and unstalkable animal: Adolf Hitler...
This cinemadaptation of Novelist Geoffrey Household's best-selling Rogue Male is a superb thriller. Loaded with excitement, suspense and terror, it is a happy joining of a wonderfully workmanlike script by Dudley Nichols with talented direction by Fritz Lang and first-rate acting by Mr. Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett, John Carradine...
...Hunt is more than just a thriller. Without ranting or tiresome speechmaking, it states the case for Democracy v. Naziism with intelligent restraint. The conflict between Hunter Pidgeon and Pursuer Sanders, the Gestapo chief, puts a man of good will up against a tough guy who thinks that might makes right. Director Lang (M. Fury), thrice-wounded Austrian veteran of World War I and a fugitive from Nazidom, knows that conflict intimately. Because he also knows how to tell a story with a camera, Man Hunt has the kind of polished wallop that Hollywood likes to talk about...
...woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West...