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Best shots: the terror-stricken refugees pouring out of street ends into the haven of the Chicago River, while the whole city flames up behind them; the bawling steers in the stockyard pens, bursting through the flimsy fencing, stampeding through the streets and trampling the screen life out of Villain Brian Donlevy...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
This year's Triangle show is set in Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle...
...cast is an interesting cross-section of the upper crust of Los Angeles' South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...
...feature, Nero Wolfe returns with Archy Goodwin in "The League of Frightened Men," unsatisfactory as so many mystery films are because the identity of the villain is not proved until the final scene, because almost any of a number of characters might have been selected by detective Walter Connolly instead of the one whom he did select...