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...Body Snatcher (RKO-Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Laid in Edinburgh in the 18305, it involves the tragic traffic of a young medical student (Russell Wade) and his brilliant teacher (Henry Daniell) with a grave robber who does not hesitate to murder when a cadaver is urgently needed for dissection...
Like all Val Lewton productions, The Body Snatcher shows a humane sincerity and a devotion to good cinema unfortunately rather rare in U.S. movies. In this case, however, much of the picture is more literary than lively and neglects its crass possibilities as melodrama. The exceptions provide an anthology of eminently nasty creeps and jolts. The sudden snort of a horse is timed to scare the daylights out of you; there is a grisly shot of Lugosi's slaughtered head, distorted beneath brine ; and the last passage in the picture is as all-out, hair-raising a climax...
...finespun theory making the rounds of Buenos Aires last week was that the Monet-snatcher had no intention of trying to dispose of the picture-he was just settling an old score with the National Museum's Director Augusto da Rocha. A tightfisted administrator (he slashed the museum's staff) and no patron of the local art mart, politically rightist da Rocha has long been at odds with most Argentine artists, who are largely left-of-liberal. The expertly executed theft might prove embarrassing enough to cost...
Double Take. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door-key to a bag snatcher, wondered how she would get in, arrived home to find the door wide open, the place looted...
...which still turns out an average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...