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...only refreshing notes are the excellence of Barbara stanwyck, perfectly cast as a questionable woman, the wonderful Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald, and the ceric perfection of a knife fight. By warping the conventional meat and potatoes script. Paramount has succeeded only in weakening Ray Milland's excellent reputation and in alienating what Western lovers it still has left...
California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
...judges, of course, did not let beauty sway them. Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
...free-skating event, a judge gave her a mark of six-a rare, perfect score. Barbara Ann won the European figure-skating crown easily over Boston's Gretchen Merrill. Canadians were not surprised: Barbara Ann had already been voted Canada's outstanding athlete, the first time a girl was ever so honored...
While the main characters cavort in the back room, a love story goes on in front. Robert Young and Barbara Hale manage to combine good looks with meaningless going-on in a bedroom chase that alternates with under-the-table larceny. Miss Hale is pretty enough to twist the arm of any card-sharp, which she manages to do with great proficiency. "Lady Luck" won't teach you any new tricks, but it's fun watching other suckers suffer on the screen...