Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite the apparent necessity of a mayor, local citizens won't be entirely happy even when this long-awaited figurehead finally gets in the City Hall. If Governor Bradford appoints the city clerk to the post, and lets the Council play around with its fruitless elections on its own time, Cambridge will loose its most recently discovered amusement center--the council chamber on the second floor of City Hall...
...climax of the movie comes with what is perhaps the best trial scene ever done in the movies, and with an escape that takes the hero to a Chinese play and a deserted amusement park crazy house There, in the hall of mirrors, Rita and her hubby shoot it out, shattering a lot of glass before touching each other. Certainly, for imagination and advantageous use of the camera, "The Lady from Shanghai" is unsurpassable...
Miss Hayworth, who naturally plays the title role, picks convenient moments to dive off rocks, kiss Orson Welles, and just lie around looking dewy-eyed and shapely, and she still finds time to do a satisfactory job of acting out her part in the story. Welles, as the philosophic Irishman, affects a brogue that is not objectionable, while Everett Sloan and Glen Anders, who play Hayworth's husband and his partner respectively, give excellent performances as two rather evil individuals...
...clear skies prevail this afternoon out at Dedham, the Crimson golf team will once again tee off against Boston College in a desperate attempt to play a long-postponed 18 holes...
...sport just runs in the family, he explains. "Mother, brother, and father, all play the game, but just...