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They span the South Atlantic from the "hump" to Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...
...breaking the hearts of beautiful women, matter of factly beating up his double crossing fellow gangsters, or filing his nails with a hacksaw, Alan Ladd and his head of hair manage to remain calm and collected. Or perhaps the word is suave. But at any rate, "Lucky Jordan," which possesses neither a first rate plot nor a cast of any note, is a first rate film...
What is particularly attractive about "Lucky Jordan" is its sincere effort to be insincere, a happy sequence of events bound together only by superman Alan Ladd and his beautiful head of hair. In the opening scene, he is lucky enough to have his "double" shot instead of himself, just as later in the evening he is lucky enough not to be at home when those naughty men come and torture his would-be mother...
...whose public-service director is James Rowland Angell, that the company's religious activities ought to be separated from its educational office. Holder of the new separate portfolio, charged with making NBC religious broadcasting a potent factor in the war effort, is tall, cadaverous, 47-year-old Max Jordan...
...Italian chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...