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...criminal who was flooding local high schools with obscene pictures. The daring theme was soon buried under an avalanche of bathos as Jack Webb set about proving that there is some good in everybody, even pornographers. Brought to bay, the filthy-picture dealer was revealed as a broken-down movie producer with total recall about the good old days in the film business...
...most surprising report, dutifully passed along from Mexico by the New York Times, was that the celebrated 2,000 tons of Communist arms, shipped in May from Poland to Guatemala, were worthless military junk. The shipment, so the story went, included a vast quantity of useless antitank mines, broken-down Czech machine guns and heavy, worn-out cannon...
...more Broadway than Deep South, he is thoroughly persuasive as a fast-talking politico equally able to bamboozle a backwoods crowd or to make a deal with big-city gangsters. Good shot: Cagney's shrewd mixture of friendliness and contempt as he joshes his neighbors into turning a broken-down house into a honeymoon cottage for himself and his bride...
...that were all, The Narrows would be merely the retelling of a sordid tabloid standby. But Author Petry, serious as she is about her seriously told plot, almost lets it take second place to other and better things: Negro life in broken-down Bumble Street, Aunt Abbie's sturdy effort to clothe her existence in dignity. Best of all is the rich parallel story of little Malcolm Powther, the dignified Treadway butler, and his blowsy, handsome, blues-singing, two-timing wife. Link and Camilo have a fictional survival period of one publishing season at best. Had Author Petry stuck...
...Clown (MGM) is a remake of the 1931 success, The Champ, in which Wallace Beery played a broken-down prizefighter and Jackie Cooper his worshipful young son. In this version, Red Skelton plays a broken-down funnyman with Tim Considine as the youngster...