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There might be one soft spot in the Axis defense. But no one on the Allied side knew for sure how big it was or how soft. The London News Chronicle's veteran war correspondent Philip Jordan sensed a crack-up in morale. He hazarded the guess that the Germans might be preparing to evacuate without a real fight. "I think that other than armored units, which are the basis of defense, the enemy is removing his best troops from Tunisia and replacing them by men who are expected to do no more than hold the defensive positions until...
...Lucky Jordan (Paramount) deals with a question that seems to trouble some scenarists: where do U.S. gangsters fit into the war effort...
...story concerns a racket king named Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) whose somewhat coarse way of life is interrupted by the Army. Despite his lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked...
...hijacking chase follows to determine whether Moran or Jordan delivers the plans and collects the seventy-five grand. Somehow Jordan winds up employing his shotgun in the service of Uncle...
...sociological treatise, Lucky Jordan shows that U.S. gangsters are infinitely nicer than Nazis because 1) they are Americans, 2) they do not like to "go around beating up old women...