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Racial tensions have now been pictured on the screen frequently enough to have lost some of their novelty. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and co-Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...
...young hack scripter (William Holden), broke, desperate, and pursued by his creditors, ducks his car up a Sunset Boulevard driveway and blunders into an eerie survival of an extinct world. In the moldering, overgrown grounds he finds a mausoleum-like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous detail. It is inhabited by two living relics: Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a great star of the silent movies, still wealthy, with an arrogant grandeur once rooted in fame and now propped by delusion; Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), once a great director (which Von Stroheim was), now her devoted...
...Scripter-Producer-Director Preston Sturges...
Zanuck runs the weekend party with the same steely control he uses at the studio. He refuses to play any game at which he does not excel. Since Playwright-Scripter Moss Hart introduced him to croquet, he has made it a cult, has turned his lawn into one of the world's best-kept croquet courts, complete with floodlights...
Bogart, a movie scripter with high ideals and a low boiling point, is given to nasty outbursts in which he beats up friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers. When a checkroom girl is found strangled after an innocent visit to Bogart's apartment, the police suspect that she was the victim of one of his ugly moods. After an unconscionably long time, so does his girl friend, Gloria, who begins to wonder just when he will take a notion to bash her head in. Only a phone call from the police, who have caught up with the real murderer, keeps...