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Ruth Roman and Shelley Winters are among the few starlets recently dredged who are suspected of harboring real ability. Ruth first showed her stuff in The Window, an RKO sleeper, and in Champion scored a smash to go with Kirk Douglas' haymaker. Warner signed her along with Douglas, is rumored to be grooming her as Bette Davis' successor...
...looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward wife...
...Shelley Winters) who was his girl friend in the happy-go-lucky war days. Next morning when Miss Winters is found to have disappeared, leaving behind a bloodied scarf belonging to Powell, he takes his next false step. Instead of reporting to the police, he sets out to run down the murderers and is presently up to his ears in big-time racketeers, a ferocious police dog, and a presumptive case of rabies...
...Grandpa Firebrace has reached the age when he is only too happy to pardon all error, especially his own. His former son-in-law, Sir Roderick Shelley, strives to be an impartial judge, especially when it would cause him discomfort to take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible...
...children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them. The family butler turns out to be Sir Roderick's son. One of the schoolteachers proves to be a son of Grandpa Firebrace. And the second Lady Shelley, it turns out, has sold jewelry that does not belong...