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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tension (MGM) details the violent domestic problems of a Los Angeles druggist (Richard Basehart) and his cheating wife (Audrey Totter). Tormented by her weakness for hanging around the store and picking up his customers, the druggist elaborately plots the death of a salesman who finally carries...
Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...
Since nobody except a poet (Richard Basehart) takes at all seriously Miss Leslie's efforts to stave off the inevitable, her second chance does her little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...
Brought into a convalescent ward behind the Assam-Burma front, a surly, arrogant young Scots sergeant named Lachlen (Richard Basehart) does not know he has only a few weeks to live. His ward mates and the ward nurse (Anne Burr) do, and they put up with his rudeness and rebuffs until they win him over. But when Lachlen discovers that he is doomed, he decides that all this friendliness was merely pity, and with proud fury he again rejects his fellowmen...