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...exposure, the consternation of her fiancé (Gig Young), the slow budding of love between the pianist and the impresario. But the pattern is neatly woven and filigreed with fun. Eager to truckle to his protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Headed by Hugh Marlowe, they're bound for the station, now housing Ty, Susan, a little baby and an old man. Those bandits are a rough lot an they need the gold that is coming in one the next stage; and so, for an hour and a half they torment the quartet and wait for the stage...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

...Communist Party, the picture uses Communist Big Shot Gerhardt Eisler (played by Konstantin Shayne) as one of its characters, bolsters its footage with newsreel shots of the uproar and street brawls the Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without being able to let them in on his masquerade, gives the picture a core of human appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...powerful magnet. Before long he tricks the child into swapping the magnet for an "invisible watch." As Johnny goes along the streets on his way home, testing the magnet on nails and old bits of iron, remorse suddenly strikes him. But it's too late; fate begins to torment...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

...suggested names. He suffers other pangs: the fright of finding his daughter a back-to-nature devotee of childbirth-without-fear; the nuisance of patching up her jealous spat with her husband (Don Taylor) ;the strain of rushing to the hospital for a false alarm. His grandson completes the torment by taking a special dislike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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