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Swell Guy (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International) is a full-length portrait of a slob (Sonny Tufts). He is a famed, chaotically incompetent war correspondent who can fool practically everybody in the postwar world except his fellow reporters, his mother and, in rare, lucid moments, himself...
...best things about this new full-length biography of Tolstoy is the picture it gives of the great Russian as a young man. Both of the novels by which he is best remembered were written later: War and Peace in his 30s and Anna Karenina in his 40s. They were not written by the unkempt peasant-patriarch of the last publicized years of Tolstoy's life, but by a rude aristocrat of tremendous energy...
...Mark Hellinger turned a sinister little Ernest Hemingway story into a crisp, suspenseful, full-length movie...
This sinister little classic has now been blown up by Producer Mark Hellinger into a full-length movie. There is a bangup opening with a good reproduction of the short story, virtually as Hemingway wrote it. Then an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) noses in on the inexplicable killing. His research takes him to the dead Swede's beneficiary, an Atlantic City chambermaid (Queenie Smith), to a Philadelphia detective (Sam Levene) and, with their help, through more & more plot-laden flashbacks of ringside and gangster life...
...claque. The claque had been hired, cried she, by a jealous operatic impresario named Gabriella Besanzoni. Bidu swore she would return only when Besanzoni was out of power. Last week in true operatic fashion, Gabriella - now retired -swooped backstage after the first night's performance. Gabriella, dressed in full-length ermine, gathered Sayao into her arms and kissed her on both cheeks...