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gerated to make a point, in a courtroom where Nora faces the gruesome decision.
The “what would you do?” dilemma is what gives the picture its stiff punch; otherwise, it might have turned into a run-of-the-mill back-street film acted routinely by Sheridan and Smith. Bruce Bennett plays Dr. Merriam, good friend of the family; Robert Alda is a sympathetic faithful lover for Nora.
Your Reviewer Says: You’ll wonder about it.
San Quentin (RKO-Radio)
WHEN Lewis E. Lawes says by way of introduction that this picture is to be a glimpse of life behind the bars of federal prisons, he has everyone perking up. This is a short reaction, though, due to the sad fact that life in prison gets the light touch and the escape of a criminal the heavy one. Which means that this turns into a routine gangster picture — and not too good a one at that.
Lawrence Tierney is an ex-convict who gets decorated for his country in the war and thereby wins his pardon. He is earnest and sincere about the work of the inmates’ league for self-discipline. The press isn’t; neither is inmate Nick Taylor who joins the league just as an easier way of escape than filing bars. Escape he does and Tierney decides to go off on his own and capture him thereby — to his mind — saving the honor of the league. That he could have worked just as well with the police just doesn’t seem to occur to him, but at any rate, this is the signal for the screeching of tires in the usual automobile chase, the rat-tat-tat of a lot of gunfire and the eventual man-to-man fight between Tierney and his prey.
Tierney gets excited about nothing that happens — he is grim throughout. That will probably be your reaction.
Your Reviewer Says: Old stuff.
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Best Performances
Edward G. Robinson in "The Red House”
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Walter Slezak in "Sinbad the Sailor”
Butch Jenkins, Peter Law ford and Spring Byington in "My Brother Talks to Horses”
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William Bendix in "I’ll Be Yours”
Dana Andrews and Lee J. Cobb in " Boomerang ?’
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