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Borderline (Universal-International) is just one more in the long series of movies that try to make 1934's It Happened One Night happen all over again. Thrown together on an unorthodox journey in Mexico and forced to pose as husband & wife, Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor bicker their way into true love. They mistake each other for dope-smuggling hijackers, but each is really an agent of the law who thinks that the other will have to be turned in when they reach the border...
What defeats the movie is a poverty of invention along the way and a curious indecision as to whether to play for farce or melodrama. For a while, as a Los Angeles lady detective trying to woo secrets out of a villain (Raymond Burr), Actress Trevor deliberately burlesques a movie vamp. After that, whatever travesty the picture makes of its own plot seems purely unintentional...
...tradition of Graham Greene heroes, Gotten decides to clear up his friend's death and reputation, goes about it with an ingenuous bravado that soon turns him from hunter into hunted. Along the way he becomes involved with a sardonic major of the British military police (Trevor Howard) who had hunted his friend, a melancholy actress (Valli) who had loved him, and, finally, the villain (Orson Welles), a gladhanding, cynical American...
...Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...