Word: scoundrelism
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...that time, nothing can save the picture. But Cinemactress Gardner gets able support from Actor Douglas, who plays a scoundrel with relish, and a handsome variety of low-necked costumes get able support from Cinemactress Gardner...
...spirit. The rest of the cast stay pretty well within the confines of the script. Their acting is spirited, and a credit to themselves and to director Peter Temple, who comes as close to making the play live as possible. Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again...
...Almost a Scoundrel." The product of generations of Danish seafarers, Isbrandtsen came to the U.S. just before World War I to help start a shipping agency in New York. Within a week, young Hans had chartered a ship, loaded it with grain, and sent it to sea. Later he formed a partnership with a cousin who was in the shipping business in Denmark. The business flourished until World War II (Isbrandtsen became naturalized in 1936), but then their ships were taken over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook...
...addition to being noisier, "Colt 45" contains more of the ingredients of the true Western. Randolph Scott, among the first men ever to use the gun, is presented with a set of new pistols by President Polk. Early in the film a scoundrel, Zachary Scott, steals them; the picture deals with the battle for retention...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...