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After a year of intensive planning, the Boston Repertory has emerged as a permanent professional theater like London's Old Vic. According to a brochure circulated by the players, the group will offer "provocative plays, completely cast, and produced in accordance with the highest professional standards...
...eleven-year-old Pic.* Once a cheap pictorial stuffed with cheesecake, Pic had been restyled in 1945 as a serious magazine for young men. It was not making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time to Street & Smith's booming quarterly, Mademoiselle's Living...
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...
...night of the big peace party, it looks as if he might steal Vic's new girl (again Diana Lynn). In spite of Louis and Sydney and Lucille, who are all present, and in spite of all the flashbacks, the girl finds Horace strangely fascinating and she seems willing to elope on his yacht. However, vengeful melodrama comes to bat, wickedness receives its long-deferred reward, and the world is made safe for doormats of good will like Vic...