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Actress Ritter's uncommon talent is for the common touch. She wields it this time as the down-to-earth mother of a social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with...
...palm off Lund as a sympathetic character, an effort that fails despite the script's broad, last-minute gestures. Star Ritter gets most of her help from Actress Hopkins' expert playing of a bitchy lady of quality. There is also a surprisingly animated performance by Gene Tierney...
Where the Sidewalk Ends (20th Century-Fox), a melodrama in monotone, reunites the team that made Laura: Producer-Director Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. The new picture makes Laura, one of 1944's best films, look better than ever. Andrews plays a tough Manhattan detective with a bad record for manhandling criminals. When he inadvertently kills one, he covers up his trail with false clues, and suspicion points to Gene Tierney's father. It takes no end of foolish talk and action for Andrews to square himself with the law and the girl...
...shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling. He crosses up several minor characters and every major one, including his girl (Gene Tierney). Then he crosses himself up. Duped by Widmark, his partner (Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko) dies after an agonizingly filmed grudge fight with Wrestler Mike Mazurki. The dead man's avenging son sets the whale city's underworld on Widmark's heels in an overlong, anticlimactic chase...
Whirlpool's one bright spot is Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when...