Mason plays a weak willed wimp to Heflin's man of action but the women in the film were superb. Barbara Stanwyck is great as the struggling wife. Cyd Charisse excellent as the young model. Nancy Reagan is the strong sympathetic friend who only has one really great but impressive scene. Beverly Michaels as the Amazon blond is a knockout. Ava Gardner is the aggressive mistress. Gail Sondergras is the cagey mother in law. And Mimi Aguglia is the cute but suspicious old Sicilian grandma. She was a famous stage actress in Europe before WWI. Excellent film even though the police seem inept. Good plot.
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Prisoner of War
(1954)
Okay Propaganda movie
19 March 2015
One reviewer found this movie quite hilarious. The film does have an unbelievable premise, that the military would actually send some one to investigate the POW camps. In fact in the opening scene, Harry Morgan (of MASH fame) tells Reagan that they have heard of atrocities but have no proof. but how did they hear? And why do they need proof? As if the Communists would actually be forced to behave humanely. That first scene was funny because Morgan comes off like he did as Gannon on Dragnet, the same stilted manner of speaking. Anyway, the film does portray the atrocities in a rather sobering way. And one neat thing is you get to see all these new actors in early roles: Strother Martin, Dewey Martin, Steve Forrest, Darrly Hickman, Dick Sargent and even Stewart Whitman. And One of the guards was Wesley Levy who played the communist leader on Satan Never Sleeps with William Holden. But it was a propaganda movie and so a bit forced and wooden except for Reagan. He was good.
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