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...President asked close friend John Snyder for a suggestion. The Secretary of the Treasury consulted an assistant, influential Under Secretary O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner. Then the White House announced the new Director: 39-year-old James E. Webb, protege of North Carolina's onetime Governor Gardner...
...surprise appointment of Webb caused Washington to look with respect to a surprising coincidence of Tarheels in important U.S. fiscal positions. North Carolina's 82-year-old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton is chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, where all revenue-raising legislation gets its start. North Carolina's Gardner watches over Treasury collections of all U.S. taxes. The expenditures of Government departments are audited by the Comptroller General of the U.S., North Carolina's Lindsay C. Warren...
Stuart W. Webb...
...Conant Webb...
Dana Andrews had the inherent intensity and toughness to be convincing as the hardboiled detective hero; Tom Neal, a good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...