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...more criticism--the climax of the picture is buried under a weak, melodramatic ending which knots a tenuous thread that had been unravelled at the beginning of the story and which only spoils an otherwise well made tapestry. In all, only a hate of animals, an abhorrence of children, or a disgust for faith will ensure you a completely miserable evening...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
...upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...
...plot thread is woven into an imaginative cinematic pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
Miss Davis' real life husband, Gary Merrill, is better cast as a good samaritan who fumbles around with several lives. But these lives are only a series of soap operas which the producers string together with a very frail thread...