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Wanda Hendrix, Orson Welles, Felix Aylmer, Tyrone Power find intrigue everywhere in the domain of the Ilorgias
^ (F) Prince of Foxes (Twentieth Century-Fox)
AN eye-filling, sumptuous spectacle has been fashioned from Samuel Shellenbarger’s popular novel. As a soldier of fortune, serving the notorious Cesare Borgia, handsome Tyrone Power loves and fights with Latin fervor. Ty is a cunning scoundrel until childlike Wanda Hendrix makes him see the error of his ways. An adorable little girl playing make-believe, Wanda’s youthfulness is accentuated by the fact that she is married to elderly Felix Aylmer. Orson Welles vividly portrays Cesare Borgia ; Everett Sloane stands out as a thoroughgoing rogue; Katina Paxinou is excellent as Power’s mother; Aylmer is as wise as he is kindly.
Abounding with romance, it’s a breathtaking picture of an age when flowery speech cloaked evil design.
Your Reviewer Says: Colorful costume drama.
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Bitter rivalry for Yvonne DeCarlo’s love renews a family feud-to-the-finish between Scott Brady ami John Russell
^ (F) The Gal Who Took the West (U-I)
OH FOR the days of the Old West when a man fought, bled, even died for the woman he loved.
Yvonne De Carlo amusingly plays a sharp-tongued, level-headed female from the East with a rustle to her bustle. Summoned by doughty old General Charles Coburn to sing in the town’s new opera house, Yvonne becomes embroiled in a deadly feud between his two grandsons, Scott Brady and John Russell. Seems these fabulously wealthy, fighting O’Haras have been itching for the chance to plug each other. Shocked over their strife, Yvonne nevertheless declines Coburn’s request to leave. With two such suitors, both loaded with land, cattle and good looks, who can blame her?
A snappy script, deftly directed and acted, turns this into highly diverting film fare.
Your Reviewer Says: A fun-filled Western.
^ (A) White Heat (Warners)
HOW tough can a guy get? If you really want to know, go see Jimmy Cagney in this grim gangster yarn. Yes, Cagney is back in one of those bad boy roles that brought him fame and fortune. This time he has dazzling but deceitful Virginia Mayo as his wife, and Treasury agent Edmond O’Brien as his pursuer.
Cagney and his henchman, Steve Cochran, have just staged a daring mail car robbery, killing several men in the process. Devising the scheme of pleading guilty to a hotel stick-up far removed from the scene of the crime, Cagney draws a comparatively light prison sentence. O’Brien arranges to become the cellmate of this cold-blooded killer, whose one spark of human feeling is for his mother, Margaret Wycherly. The story is an involved one, crammed with vicious characters.
Your Reviewer Says: Cagney goes gun crazy.
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