Word: vendettas
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...Vendetta (RKO Radio) began shooting in 1946, ran through three versions, four directors (Max Opuls, Preston Sturges, Stuart Heisler and, finally, Mel Ferrer), and tireless tinkering Producer Howard Hughes. Total estimated cost: $3,200,000, which tops what Hollywood's Stanley (Champion, The Men) Kramer has spent in all on the five pictures he has produced...
After more than three years in Cinemogul Hughes's vaults, Vendetta has now been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...
...latest graduate of the Howard Hughes straining-bodice school of dramatic art. Hughes discovered Faith in 1941, put her into a strenuous training program for stardom. Like Jane Russell, another Hughes discovery whom she somewhat resembles, Faith bloomed unseen except in leg and torso art poses. Her first film, Vendetta, has been awaiting release since...
After a race riot, in which colored gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...
Roger Slaughter stayed in Washington, went to work as a legal representative for grain interests. Harry Truman showed that he had not forgotten his old vendetta. A Washington grand jury indicted the former Congressman on charges of lobbying without registering...