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(F) The Walls of Jericho (20th Century -Fox)
Actually, there are three stories, not one, in this overlong movie based on Paul Wellman’s novel of a Kansas town in 1908.
There’s the triangle involving county attorney Cornel Wilde, his worthless wife, Ann Dvorak, and his lawyersweetheart, Anne Baxter. Then there’s overambitious Linda Darnell who, for political and personal reasons, causes conflict between her husband, Kirk Douglas, and his old friend. Cornel. A third plot presents itself when young Colleen Townsend kills rascally Barton MacLane in self-defense. These are a few of the many characters who traipse through the story.
As a victim of circumstance, Wilde will win your sympathy although he and Douglas could do with a bit more backbone. As for the luscious Linda, she still has more than a trace of Amber in her. Credit Colleen Townsend with making an auspicious debut, but save most of your applause for Anne Baxter.
Your Reviewer Says: Orchids to Anne Baxter!
Triple plot: Cornel Wilde, Anne Baxter and Linda Darnell become involved in a dramatic conflict between love and ambition
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Suspense: Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster are caught in a web of murder, ticking clocks and tense telephone conversations
^^(F) Sorry, Wrong Number (Paramount)
Suspense is the keynote of a spinetingling murder meller acted to the hilt by Bai'bara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.
In highly dramatic fashion it tells how strong-willed Barbara, the “cough-drop queen,” makes Burt marry her despite the pleas of her pretty classmate, Ann Richards, and the objections of her indulgent father, Ed Begley. Whenever anyone crosses Barbara, she’s seized with a heart attack, and finally takes to her bed permanently. Physically strong but morally weak,. Burt has about as much freedom as a pet poodle. All alone in the big house one evening, Barbara tries to reach her husband at his office and overhears a murder plot on a crossed wire. A woman is to be killed that very night at eleven-fifteen. As the clock ticks away Barbara gradually realizes she is the one marked for death.
An emotion-charged thriller which takes devious twists and turns to tell its story, it nevertheless tops the current crop of movie murders.
Your Reviewer Says: It’s a hair-raiser.
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