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...gambler, does she fall or is she pushed from the second-floor landing to her death? One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with undercurrents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy ending...
Divorced. Hoagy Carmichael. 55, topnotch popular composer (Stardust, Lazy Bones), smoky-voiced singer of TV, radio
...their styling is "a little backward, sort of corny." There is grumbling because so much of the Westinghouse advertising budget is spent on national advertising and on TV, so little for the local tie-in campaigns that nail down sales. Some of the ill feeling even brushes off on topnotch TV Saleswoman Betty Furness. Snapped a Seattle dealer: "She condescends to women, talks down to them. Maybe her kind of chitter-chatter goes good on Park Avenue but not in Seattle, Washington...
...company management is now alive to its problems. Price and Mark Cresap, his executive vice president and heir apparent, are vigorously counterattacking. To recapture falling sales, the company is hiring topnotch salesmen, boosting its sales organization by 20%. Promised Price: "We're definitely going to step up our merchandising activities at the local level and we'll spend whatever is necessary." In an attempt to get back into the jet field, it has spent $20 million on jet-engine facilities and is testing a new medium-power jet engine, hopes to get Navy orders...
Trial does not have to pound away at its theme; it jabs sparingly, but mostly in the right places. Glenn Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people...