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Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...
...Through the Night" may not go on quite that long, but it has enough action and cop-and robber chases to last well on into the morning. As a matter of fact, probably the biggest fault in the film is its overabundance of climactic gunfights and midnight war chouse searches. These are exciting and all that, but they leave you a bit worn out when they're finally over...
...other words, a critic who continually finds himself out of step with the audience he deals with is likely to be the fly in the ointment himself, though he generally won't admit it. If he's an esthete and can't stand cop-and-robber tights on the screen, then he has no business trying to tell an audience that craves blood whether or not a particular thriller is good or bad. He's batting in the wrong league, and the sooner he, recognizes this, the better...
...Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh of The Big Foxes and provided a scathing picture of The Unamerican...
...last week the New Dealer's wish seemed to come true in the shape of an astonishing little man named Frank Cohen. Though not exactly a robber baron, Frank Cohen is no overstuffed corporate career man either. He made his money playing shrewd angles around Wall Street. His latest angle, which is armaments, occurred to him for other reasons than profit. But he played it just as hard as if it meant millions. In so doing he became one of the men the U.S. needed...