Word: adventuress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dark Heroine. Last week, in the tortured and tormented confessions of a would-be suicide, reprinted on the front pages of Hong Kong's leading newspapers, the question was answered. The girl who captured the handsome hero was a dark and devious adventuress, as full of schemes and subterfuge as a Communist cell. Pert, pretty and dynamic, Hung Hsien-nu was the reigning queen of the Hong Kong opera, with a score of movie credits to her name as well. The protegee and wife of a former Hong Kong movie star whose Red sympathies had carried him back...
...Homecoming plays the old tearjerking Enoch Arden plot to the accompaniment of samisens instead of violins. Kyogo Moriya is a fiftyish Japanese ex-naval officer who sits out the first part of World War II in self-exile in Singapore because of a youthful gambling scandal. There a svelte adventuress two-times him into jail. Back in Japan after war's end, he sedulously avoids his wife, who has remarried in the meantime, and his grown-up daughter. He gets caught up with a whole series of characters who are more representative than real: a serious painter who stays...
Also on the Beacon Hill screen are two J. Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international spies, beautiful women, and a comic British busybody...
Among the passengers: an idealistic doctor (Joseph Cotten) on a mission for the U.N.'s World Health Organization, a somewhat shopworn adventuress (Corinne Calvet), a Roman Catholic priest (Edmund Gwenn), an arrogant Chinese Communist journalist, an oily war lord (Marvin Miller), who plays ball with the Reds while enriching himself on the black market in U.N. medical supplies, and his estranged wife, a Nationalist sympathizer...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...