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...Hollywood Story, decides he must solve it first. He rakes up old clues, gets shot at for his pains, goes staunchly on through a gallery of suspects: his business partner (Fred Clark), a onetime matinee idol (Paul Cavanaugh), a silent movie queen's daughter Julia Adams), a veteran scripter (Henry Hull...
...created by Whodunit Writer Craig Rice, Malone deals with a Chicago criminal lawyer whose avowed hobby is "collecting cliches." Malone has other off-beat mannerisms: he avoids fights, employs a masseur, and dislikes guns because "they remind me of weddings." Currently unsponsored, Malone had some fast-paced dialogue by Scripter Eugene Wang, is packed with such novelties as an effeminate gunman, a strait-laced gambler fretting about his daughter's morals, a policeman who was on the right track from the start...
...Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...most of Five, filmed on a shoestring by Producer-Scripter-Director Arch Oboler, takes place in Oboler's own modernistic eyrie in California's Santa Monica mountains, where the survivors happen to gather from as far away as Mt. Everest and the Empire State Building. Five's intriguing premise, which sorely lacks either dialogue by George Bernard Shaw or the imagination of H. G. Wells, leaves Radio-writer Arch Oboler with his limitations showing...