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...whooshing into space from the decks of aircraft carriers and submarines. These scenes are ruined by a broadside of plot cliches: Sub Commander Glenn Ford's valiant struggle against red tape to get his craft equipped with the new weapons; his romance with the admiral's secretary (Viveca Lindfors); his recovery, through sheer grit and amateur psychiatry, from an emotional trauma that paralyzes his legs...
Producer Hal Wallis has decked out this contrived story with standard melodramatic props: dark shadows, windblown curtains, the strangler's poised hands. Ed Begley has a nice bit part as a gambler with ulcers. Heston is appropriately tough with Nightclub Singer Lizabeth Scott and predictably sentimental with Widow Viveca Lindfors...
Still her nobility awaits its greatest trial. Husband Corey, who is pretty noble himself, is beginning to make eyes at his new drafting assistant, a lush, dark-haired Swede (Viveca Lindfors). For a moment, when it seems that he will run off with Viveca, Margaret decides on suicide rather than giving up her secret. But her speeding car runs out of gas before it reaches the cliff. Then Corey turns up to assure her that he loves her more than Viveca, who is nobly leaving town. All that remains for doomed Margaret to do is to persuade the other woman...
Most of the talk is handled by a young scientist (Ronald Reagan) who is suffering from epilepsy, and a handsome widow (Viveca Lindfors) who is addicted to depressing chats with the spirit of her dead husband. Also involved in the impromptu panel discussions are a garrulous painter (Broderick Crawford) and the widow's younger sister (Osa Massen), who is a heavy tippler with leanings toward nymphomania...
Despite the low-keyed lighting and some ominous shots of stormy Florida coast, nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...