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...with each other serve almost to obliterate an interesting character study of a War ace who shoots himself because he despises the business of killing human beings whom he has no reason to hate. When he gets a chance, Fredric March-a conscientious, intelligent rather than a brilliant actor-makes the growing emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which he can do nothing to escape, seem immensely credible and vivid. The incident in the story by John Monk Saunders is as melodramatic as is customary for narratives of its type. The last sequence-in which...
Every four weeks the big-eyed, wisp-snouted rodent that is the world's most celebrated film actor re-emerges on the screens of the world with shrill eagerness and a new set of adventures. He pokes into the unknown, pants, heaves and swells his chest at Minnie Mouse, meets grievous setbacks, shrilly gives fight and taps out marvels of dancing, bullfighting, footballing.* Like his predecessor in world popularity, Charlie Chaplin, he has "the wistfulness of ... a little fellow trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki...
Things begin to hum when a new boy arrives, tough Red Barry (Burgess Meredith). Red tried to slip a gun to his brother, waiting to be electrocuted in the State's death house. Actor Meredith, until recently the Dormouse and Tweedledee...
Died. William Courtenay, 57, oldtime stage actor (The Wolf, Arsene Lupin, Romance, Under Fire, The Inside Story}; of a heart ailment incurred more than two years ago during the filming of Three Faces East...
Died. Fred Terry, 69, oldtime actor-manager, brother of the late great Actress Ellen Terry; in London...