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There are, however, several complicating factors. "We're in awfully tough shape," says Penn coach Steve Sebo, and that sums up the situation quite accurately. Barney Beringer will be absent from his right end slot and Tony Capuano will not be available for duty at left guard Both were starters against Navy last week...
...woozily inaccurate way the film is a biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...
...Guadalcanal Barney holds a strong point alone against hundreds of Japanese, kills 22 of them and saves the life of a wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd...
After that the story's morale goes to pieces almost as fast as Barney's. The camera dotes on scenes of degradation with such lickerish delight that the rolled sleeve becomes a more important symbol of sensuality than the lifted skirt. As for the film hero's cure, it can no more be taken seriously than a tour of the haunted house in an amusement park, although Ross himself has not taken drugs for ten years. As the first of three opium operas that have been scheduled since narcotics became a suitable subject for Hollywood films (TIME...
David Bryden seems slightly miscast as Lt. Barney Greenwald, counsel for the defense, in many ways the focal character of the play. He carries the part with a brashness and at times a gaucherie that seems entirely unfitted to the role, although he has a few redeeming moments. James Putnam as Lt. Thomas Keefer, male-volent, sarcastic intellectual, shows some signs of having thought about his part, although he tends toward overacting. The same might be said of David Galloway who is quite engaging in his brief appearance as Signalman Urban. William Balchelder as the senior officer of the court...