Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clouds Over Europe (Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson, Ralph Richardson; TIME, June...
...romantics, Laurence Olivier (who resembles Ronald Colman and snarls like Clark Gable) and Valerie Hobson (who looks and loves like Loretta Young) pout and make up in proper Hollywood style. But the show-stealing star of Clouds over Europe is bland, slightly-potty, all-round Actor Ralph Richardson (Things to Come, The Divorce of Lady X, The Citadel...
...only man in British officialdom who smells a Teuton in the one-by-one disappearance of four of His Majesty's newest war planes, Scotland Yarder Richardson ambles after clews with the skew of a Punch barfly, leans archly on an emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice...
Incidentally, Investigator Richardson eventually finds he has to contend with a radio ray that disables airplane ignition systems in flight. More plausible than most cineminventions, such a ray was reported worked three years ago by Marconi at distances up to 25 feet. Another such, rigged up by a radio ham in Wisconsin, was last year reported gobbled up by the U. S. War Department...
Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...