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...work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...story is a rickety yarn about the disappearance of the Blarney stone from Blarney Castle, and how a U.S. insurance investigator (Bing) helps the local police sergeant (Barry) to catch the thief. The crime, of course, gets far less footage than Crosby's crooning and a romance between Bing and the sergeant's sloe-eyed daughter (Ann Blyth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Easy Living (RKO Radio) looks for half a reel like a football yarn. Then it turns into a turgid, second-rate soap opera about a professional football hero (Victor Mature) and his overambitious career-girl wife (Lizabeth Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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