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Harry Morgan (John Garfield), a rough & ready veteran of PT boats, scrounges a living for his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) and two daughters by chartering his cruiser for fishing trips. Apart from his boat (which is not paid up) and a talent for spotting marlin half a mile off, he has nothing "to peddle but guts." When a client runs out on his bill, leaving Morgan broke in a Mexican port, he starts peddling guts...
...camera. Much of its quality stems from Cinematographer Ted (Treasure of Sierra Madre) McCord's fine photography of sun-baked waterfront and open sea. All the players are in top form. In his meatiest role in years, Actor Garfield gives one of his best performances, and Actress Thaxter is memorable as a housewife bowed down by drudgery, poverty and fear...
Maine: Sidney W. Thaxter '37; 192 Middle St., Portland...
Ryan is a determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
...student activities center was unanimously recommended as a Harvard World War II memorial by the Council Extra-Curricular Activities Committee, in a report released yesterday by Thaxter Swan '45, committee chairman...