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...appearance of a man called Chester. Chester, someone explains, delights in giving people pain. He hits O'Brien in his poisoned stomach and then chuckles, "he's soft in the belly, can't take it in the belly," and then Chester punches him again. Reminiscent of Richard Widmark in his earliest performance (when he tied an old woman to her wheelchair and pushed her down the stairs), Neville Brand gives the most polished performance of the picture...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Richard Widmark in General Forrest Rides Again...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). There's Always Juliet, with Richard Widmark and Teresa Wright...
True to cinemilitary tradition, the film shows how crisis and the call of duty can regenerate the most cynical heel. As the heel, Richard Widmark sinks so low that only something as drastic as a hurricane can wash his sins away. A Naval Reserve pilot, he flies a plane for dope smugglers. In his spare time he drinks intemperately, cruelly casts off his sweetheart (Veronica Lake) and makes passes at the wife (Linda Darnell) of an old Navy buddy (John Russell...
...time the hurricane comes along to give Widmark a crack at heroic redemption (and to blow some fresh air onto the screen), it is too late to redeem the film from a dead calm of dimly motivated banalities...