DESERT FURY
(Paramount) NTO thé little Western township of " Chuckawalla (a dozen stores, one soda-fountain, one factory, and a gambling-joint) comes a gangster, John Hodiak. Mr. Hodiak, who has just left the wilder and more western centre of Los Angeles, wants to be alone in ‘the silence of the desert so that he can figure out a new racket. Simultaneously in comes Lizabeth Scott, who has deserted from her finishing school ’way down east because she wants To Live Her Own Life in the clean, healthy atmosphere of mother’s sidewalk casino. Within a couple of reels she has succumbed to the sleek charms of Mr. Hodiak and wants to live his life instead. But Mother, who was herself taken down on her way up by the same gentleman, locks Lizabeth in her room. The latter eventually raises the siege and there is much racing and chasing around in high-powered cars before Mr. Hodiak considerately runs off the road and rubs himself out. This leaves Lizabeth free to walk off into the technicoloured twilight on the arm of the husky deputy-sheriff,; who has been hanging around patiently for some 8000 feet. And, believe me, it takes some patience. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 447, 16 January 1948, Page 19
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197DESERT FURY New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 447, 16 January 1948, Page 19
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