Word: vic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruthless (Eagle Lion) is a temperate description of a financier named Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott). As the picture opens, he is tossing a huge fortune into the lap of a world peace organization; but his old acquaintance Vic (Louis Hayward) knows a thing or two about him, and the movie breaks out into a rash of flashbacks...
Horace started poor, but from the beginning he knew how to climb to wealth and power over the necks of women. Back in Cambridge, Mass., some 30 years in the past, he stole Vic's girl (Diana Lynn) and got his start in her father's business. He jilted her when he met rich, well-connected Martha Vickers, and began to make his way as a financier. Thus established, he cut Martha adrift and set out to break the trickiest operator on the Street (Sydney Greenstreet), using, as his ally, Sydney's bored wife (Lucille Bremer). Then...
...plan to operate on a system similar to that of the Old Vic," Marre stated, "presenting mostly classical plays." He explained that the group would completely renovate the theater, construct its own props and scenery, and engage professional equity companies. "We've all had considerable experience," Marre added, "and we intend to put our productions on a purely professional basis...
...hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...