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...Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier frame, before matters are cleared...
Alan Ladd handles both girls and perils with his customary cold, efficient grace; Gail Russell is very easy to look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...
...Life of Riley (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC), as led by William Bendix, a choice if rather special comedian...
...play gentleman (he isn't really a butler at heart, of course-only an unsuccessful painter). Before he knows it, he has rescued a lady in danger (Ella Raines) by indiscreetly signing a hot check for $103,000 payable to a tough-skinned, softhearted gambling king (William Bendix...
...compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...