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Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon are so excellent in "Scandal In Scourie."
Betty Grable gives Dale Robertson trimming in "Farmer Takes A Wife."
William Foster and William Holden in the grim, realistic "Stalag 17."
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plantation has been saved and that she has been able to resist the tempting offers of Patric Knowles to turn it into a resort. Knowles, refusing to give up, finds a loophole in Arlene's ownership of the estate when he discovers two other prospective heirs. From then on it becomes a battle of temperament and treachery. The film is a Pine-Thomas special, directed by Lewis Foster, and enhanced with Technicolor. Paramount.
The Juggler
The new republic of Israel forms the ■ unusual background for Stanley Kramer's documentary of displaced per
sons. The film traces the rehabilitation of juggler Kirk Douglas. An international German celebrity, Douglas thinks of himself as a German not a Jew, and therefore immune to the concentration camps. When his wife and children are killed in a gas chamber, he blames himself for their death. He becomes neurotic, afraid of being confined, constantly on the run. Temporarily placed in a camp in Israel while awaiting assignment to a work village, he becomes panicky and overpowers a guard to escape. Believing he has killed him, he begins a frantic flight across Israel. In his travels he meets Milly Vitale, who offers him love, and Joey Walsh, a young fan, who rekindles his enthusiasm for juggling. It is through their efforts that he agrees to return with pursuing police and undertake psychiatric treatments. Douglas' keen perception of the part, plus the rousing folk dances add greatly to film's standards. Columbia.
Dangerous When Wet
\A/hen the farmer's daughter, Esther Williams, meets traveling medicine man, Jack Carson, she doesn't tumble for his line — but he sure does for hers. The result is that Esther and her health-eccentric family (William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Whiting and Donna Corcoran) are entered by Jack's vitamin firm in the English Channel race. While training, Esther meets playboy Fernando Lamas, who manages to topple both her training schedule and romantic barrier. When Esther learns that her entire family has been disqualified from the race and that she is the only entry, she forsakes Fernando for a rigorous practice session. Although she makes a fair showing in the race, it isn't until Fernando jumps into the water and swims with her that she is urged on to
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Kirk Douglas falls in love with Milly Vitale in "The Juggler," but is so concerned with eluding the police their romance is secondary to the chase.