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...well-keyed to a note of squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
...arms and motto of the family, impressed the Byron crest on his stationery and silverware. He even made his living by forging Byron letters, and did so well at it that he branched out to include letters guaranteed (by the major) to be from the pens of Keats and Shelley...
Major Byron died in New York in 1882, leaving literary experts on two continents with ruffled vanities. Some of his Keats and Shelley forgeries are crude, but the Byron ones are sound. Said a famous London auctioneer to Lord Byron's publisher: "Here are some genuine letters of Byron's, and here are forgeries of them. We must not mix them, for if we do, we shall never be able to separate them...
...Author Ehrsam contributed proof of Major Byron's Shelleyana fakes in Robert Metcalf Smith's The Shelley Legend (TIME...
...Shelley plays Frenchie Fontaine, a New Orleans gambling queen who packs a dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...