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...electric generators, searchlights and walkie-talkie sets. He has also brought along his royal fiancee (Gail Russell), armed with a movie camera. The challenge is impressive, but Sabu meets it by scuttling about at night releasing the animals the prince has captured by day. This lands him in a peck of trouble with the prince and a pallid little flirtation with the princess. Meanwhile, taking a cue from Gail's amateur camera work, the picture provides some good professional close-ups of unusual birds, beasts, and reptiles at work and at play...
...type a hunt & peck letter to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, telling him about the quarry and his relatives. Joe proposed to send U.S. equipment to the quarry, boost its output and sell stone in the U.S. as well as Italy. Last week, after eleven months of international red tape, Joe Pacifico became the first U.S. businessman to win an industrial guarantee on the continent of Europe...
...Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to long gambling bouts in German spas, and to falling fits and visionary religious enthusiasms...
...resemblance to Dostoevsky ends. The rich, exuberant flow of dialogue, incident and atmosphere characteristic of the Russian master has been choked to a pedestrian trickle. Dostoevsky's brilliant insights into the tortured motives and emotions of his lovers have paled into klieg-lighted stereotypes. Much of the time Peck and Miss Gardner act as if they had been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead...
Born. To Gregory Peck. 33, lanky cinemactor (Gentleman's Agreement, Duel in the Sun), and Greta Konen Peck, 32, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Carey Paul. Weight...