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Producer-Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler wisely junks the play's long speeches designed to draw parallels between McLeod's rigid zeal and the evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy...
...detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...
...Paramount redeemed the heavy loss suffered by William Wyler's The Heiress, a big critical success, with the receipts from Cecil B. DeMille's spectacularly profitable Samson and Delilah. "It would appear as if what the industry needs is more Victor Matures (not to mention DeMilles) rather than more mature pictures...
Married. Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island...
...industry's oldtimers, balloting separately for their silent-screen favorites, again picked Chaplin and Garbo, named Griffith as both director and producer, and his The Birth of a Nation as the best movie. In the sound-film category, G.W.T.W. won again hands down; Samuel Goldwyn and William Wyler, the makers of The Best Years of Our Lives, won the producers and director's laurels. Spencer Tracy nosed out Sir Laurence Olivier as the best actor. Best sound-film actress: Ingrid Bergman...