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...Merry Way--Everybody from James Stewart to Victor Moore is in this, which means Paulette Goddard, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, and Dorothy Lamour, among others. Opens today at the Keitb Memorial...
...exceptionally clever or even plausible one, but it is presented in such a turbulent way, with those French (or better 'adult') touches, that the interest never lags. The story is set in that other side of show-business that Betty Grable never sees. A music-hall singer named Jenny Lamour and her piano-playing husband are plugging along in vaudeville when Jenny gets an offer for a contract from a big movie producer who happens also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head...
...quite graphically is that the indifferent brutality of police-questioning is a universally-practiced form of inhumanity, and that police frequently become so hardened by their jobs that they will go to any length to finish up a case so that they, too, can go home to supper. "Jenny Lamour" shows how an innocent man can be driven to mental-collapse by the authorized torture methods of the police. In this case, the innocent man would almost have been better off guilty...
Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...
Road to Rio. Crosby, Hope & Lamour stroll down Hollywood's easiest road to laughs (TIME...