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...purposes of movie morality, the husband (Paul Douglas), after unsuccessfully attempting to strangle the other man (Robert Ryan), understandingly takes back his suddenly repentant wife (Barbara Stanwyck). As Barbara unconvincingly regenerated, the drama degenerates. And in Fritz Lang's turgid direction. Clash by Night emerges as a pretentious movie melodrama swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight...
Paul Douglas plays the cloddish but honest fisherman husband with a good deal of earnestness, while Barbara Stanwyck gives one of her regulation good performances of a bad girl. As the cynical lover, Robert Ryan plays a motion-picture projectionist who speaks some grade-B movie dialogue, e.g., to Barbara: "Your husband's the salt of the earth, but he's not the right seasoning for you." Also on hand, in a minor role: shapely Marilyn Monroe. as a fish-cannery employee who bounces around in a succession of slacks, bathing suits and sweaters...
When a Buenos Aires theater staged the première last week of a new Argentine movie called Barbara Atómica (rough translation: Hot-Stuff Barbara), the Catholic Action youth movement stepped out to show its disapproval. Reason: some of the mambo dancers in the movie were virtually unclad. Throwing stink bombs and shooting off firecrackers, the Catholic Action members started a rowdy uproar in the theater that ended with eleven injured, 92 arrested...
After eight months of rough & tumble marriage, Actor Franchot Tone appeared in a Los Angeles court to plead for a divorce from Cinemactress Barbara Payton. Said Tone: "My wife's hobby is cooking. She wanted to prepare dinners herself." The trouble was, Tone explained, that he would invite people home for one of her dinners and the guests would sit around for hours waiting for her to arrive and start cooking. After a ten-minute hearing, the judge decided Tone had been cruelly treated, and gave him the divorce...
Died. Colonel Ernest K. Coulter, 80, founder of the worldwide Big Brother movement to help delinquent boys, for 22 years (1914-36) general manager of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, onetime Spanish-American War correspondent for the New York Herald; in Santa Barbara, Calif...