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...shortage of believable people is the weakest point of the film. Sabu, who plays a young prince caught between the machinations of the villain and the colonials, was a boy when the picture was made and could creditably show the workings of a fourteen-year-old. Massey, on the other hand, does not portray the subtle mentality of an Indian. As someone in the movie says, he is only another gangster...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Drum | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

...Hugh M. Flick, chief New York State movie censor, declared that for a movie censor, sex is fairly easy to handle (he often cuts it out), but brutality is much harder to manage: "punishment [of a brutal villain] doesn't disconnect your unconscious identification with a star you know and like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...ricochet romance, U.S. style. Three men in a pub (Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Stanley Baker), all decent fellows but down on their luck, meet a fourth (Laurence Harvey), who persuades them to steal a shipment of old bank notes from a mail truck. When the job is done, the villain slaughters all three of his accomplices, but in the last reel the meat wagon comes around for him, too. The playing is brisk, but the story takes too long to untangle itself. The good die somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Imports | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...villain of the Government's case and the only Star Co. staffer named in the criminal indictment* the paper's advertising director, Emil A. Sees, 59, who has run the company's ad department since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Case Against the Star | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Having established Cordon as a villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two for the Show | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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