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Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...years after that, in New York and Chicago, Lizzie was something of a favorite. Those were heady days, with the big gamblers at the ringside. ("I remember Little Augie, he always wanted to hear Prisoner's Song - you know, 'If I had the wings of an angel . . .' Most of those gangsters were the nicest, quietest people.") In the Depression years, the blues were too real for comfort : Lizzie thought she was through. She worked as a housemaid, later as a barmaid. Even in World War II, she could not find a singing job. "Showfolks, gamblers and sportin...
...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
Before Ford can get his case moving, he discovers that Kennedy has brought in the huge propaganda machinery of the "All-People's Party." Kennedy even works up a milling, militant "Free Angel Chavez Rally" in Madison Square Garden. He packs the place with hard-core Communists, hot-eyed hangers-on, droning speechmakers and "entertainers." Kennedy collects his defense funds, and the party has its martyr, as well as its unsuspecting suckers. Next step: the conviction of Angel Chavez as a springboard for anticapitalist propaganda...
...Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people who do not have wall eyes...