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Along with his new identity and the promise of riches, he picks up a doting mother (Selena Royle), an affectionate sister (Mona Freeman) and a sudden rash of scruples. When he learns that the rancher's real, kidnaped son has been adopted by a Mexican bandit chief (Joseph Calleia), Ladd stages a one-man invasion of Mexico to bring the missing heir home. He is undeterred by a whole bandit army, the rough terrain and the fact that the long-lost son is perfectly content to stay where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...movie gets the benefit of solid performances by Actors Calleia and Bickford, plus Director Rudolph Mate's efficient handling of a last-reel chase. But, like everything else in this saddle soap opera, the assets are defeated by the unstinted heroics of deadpan Actor Ladd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...valiant taxi-driver (Gene Kelly) who rushes at the priest's killers with his bare fists, takes everything his torturers can give him in solitary confinement-and utterly loses his courage. The Spaniard (Joseph Calleia), the only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...doings of 1) Veronica Lake-with-her-hair-up, who is playing Madvig for a sucker but has a glad eye for Friend Beaumont; 2) her father, a corrupt politician, Madvig's candidate for governor; 3) her playboy brother, who gets murdered; 4) a gelid gambling boss (Joseph Calleia) who tries to pin the murder on Madvig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Sabu, who returns to his native village and his true mother after his wolfish education is ended, learns how to run with the man pack in no time at all. Buldeo (Joseph Calleia), the hunter, sells him a "tooth" (a long-bladed knife), and he polishes off Shere Khan. But the hunter's lust for the treasure of a lost jungle city which Mowgli reveals to him sends the disgusted wolf-boy back to his animal friends-and leaves the door wide open for a sequel, if the box office warrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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