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...wish. When he discarded humble Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury) and she killed herself, the mouth of the portrait warped in cruelty. He locked it away, where only he could see it. As the years passed, and he lost himself in every depth, of vice the screen dare hint at, he watched the portrait's gradual and fantastic corruption.* He saw how blood sprang out on the right hand when at length he committed murder...
...difficult to remember who first screened the Sutton Vane play, "Outward Bound," but it has been done before, and many of its ideas have been repeated in such films as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" and "A Guy Named Joe." Warner Brothers' current re-make is a bit too well cast, for in order to do justice to Paul Henreid, John Garfield, Sidney Greenstreet, George Coulouris, Edmund Gwenn, and a host of others, they have made a haunting idea into a long and talky picture...
Between Two Worlds (Warner) is a face-lifting job on Sutton Vane's Outward Bound, which 20 years ago was a Broadway hit (and has been a perennial stand-by for amateur theatricals ever since), 14 years ago was a successful movie. But the new wrinkles are not always as good as the old lines...
...Between Two Worlds (Warner), ready for release, is the second screen version of Sutton Vane's morality play (Outward Bound) about death and judgment...
What the cinema does give is the story of a simple man who wavered and whirled like a weather vane in the crossed winds of his time. He liked the Indians but killed scads of them, loved the plains but did more than any one man to turn them into a bone yard. As the picture also shows, he deeply suspected the East, as represented by his wife and by railroad capitalists, and made difficulties for himself by telling off the latter in favor of the Indians. And at length he recouped his fortunes by diluting into showmanship the curious...