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The Searching Wind (Hal Wallis-Paramount) is an angry film sermon against appeasement. Skillfully adapted from her own angry Broadway play by Lillian Hellman, the picture is an intelligent and frequently moving job. By Hollywood standards, it is highly courageous : it not only grapples with knotty political issues but it...
Chief rivals are Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to Hollywood gossips, they are infiltrating each other's lots with company spies disguised as extras. Following standard practice, Paramount has already surmounted the first production hurdle: picking and discarding various titles. The chosen one: Top Secret. It is no...
But neither Paramount nor Metro professes much alarm at this crude trespass. Paramount confidently says that Hal Wallis has the "official" story of the atom bomb locked safely in his desk. Says Metro: "SammyMarx has the atom sewed up tight."
Love Letters (Hal Wallis-Paramount) endows an incredibly tortuous plot with such remarkably good acting, photography and direction that, whether you can take it or not, you are practically forced to like it.
Despite an almost flawless performance by Actor Cummings and the stylishly bedizened beauty of Newcomer Lizabeth Scott, all this tragic extra footage seems mainly designed to display the virtuosity of Producer Hal Wallis' latest entry in the screen glamor sweepstakes.