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Catching a mountain lion in a coyote trap is quite a surprise. Finance Minister Ramon Beteta last week found how it feels. He had set out to run down the silver smugglers who had been cheating the government of export taxes and dollar earnings. He ended up with the ultra-conservative Banco de Comercio, S.A., the country's biggest private banking house, on his hands...
...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...
...begun, as a matter of fact, on a sour note. Critics agreed that the opening production of Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout and Tenor Ramon Vinay, was an unduly damp and dismal affair, even though it rained that night. But the second night's show was Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which had not had a major U.S. production for 16 years, and it was something to talk about...
...beautiful shots of Havana's buildings rising like white frozen fountains at the end of receding alleys, and some brilliant bits on the revolution in full swing. There are also good performances by Jennifer Jones, David Bond, Gilbert Roland (as a calypso-crooning conspirator), and onetime silent-star Ramon Novarro (as a middle-aged plotter...
Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...