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...Desperate Hours, as a matter of fact, is quite complex throughout. William Wyler's direction has decorated the plot with small incidents and byplay which illuminate the characters but do not slow down the speed with which the picture races to its climax. Nor does Wyler ever stop to interject some sort of vague message or a commentary on such topics as police corruption. There is a statement about that, but it has its function in the story. And although the film does not strain for a message, it still has a point: a man's greatest dignity comes from...
...Broadway critic called the play "an almost perfect melodrama." The movie lacks a few of the psychological grace notes of the play, but Author Hayes has written a meller with the coiling continuity of a whiplash, and a savage snapper at the end of it. Producer-Director William Wyler has the capacity to see the whole of a motion picture in one flash across the private screen of imagination; and into this sense of the whole he can interpolate ornament-all kinds of human dado and humoristic acanthus-with a skill that gives spontaneity to the grand design without collapsing...
...Desperate Hours, Director Wyler has subordinated his actors with unusual severity to the pace of the plot, and most of them have taken to the rein like the thoroughbreds they are. Bogart gives a piteously horrible impression of the essential criminal, the man who has to take because he is too weak to give. And Richard Ever, as the boy, is a regular little darb. Fredric March, by the dignity of his performance, lends to the father's role a sense of legendary size that reminds a moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity...
...Broadway cast; Victor LP). The new Cole Porter musical (TIME, March 7). Its sophisticated rhymes bring Ninotchka's old joshing about Bolshevism up to date, and a couple of songs (All of You, Without Love) are pleasant enough. Don Ameche sings passably, if emphatically. Hildegarde Neff and Gretchen Wyler sing emphatically...
...WILLIAM WYLER Hollywood 54 in '55 SIR: MY SINCERE THANKS TO BORIS CHALIAPIN AND TIME [DEC. 27] FOR A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT . . . POSTSCRIPT AS TO MY BEING A "CHEERFUL MONOMANIAC"-MAYBE so. BUT THERE'S ONE THING OF WHICH I AM SURE; I WAS ONLY...