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(Paramount), DON’T know what pulp magazine provided the plot for this latest round in the battle of the sexes, but the characters and the sets look as if they had been lifted straight from one of the more lurid American syndicated strips, and the emotional ingredients-fake heroism, violence, sex, and viscous sen-timentality-are, of course, identical. The principal protagonists are Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. Miss Lake, who still has some difficulty in keeping both eyes simultaneously in commission,’ registers angér, contempt, scorn, indifference, and something called lerv. Mr. Ladd registers indifference, scorn, contempt, anger, and eventually lerv too, but the final emotional coincidence is tactfully deferred until several supernumary characters have been killed off. In the end, having swallowed. the hatchet, so to speak, they walk off together into the Indo-Chinese twilight. That they do so to the words of the burial service, read over the battered bodies of two former companions, may strike some filmgoers as curious, Others, whose notions of propriety are more conservative, will just feel queasy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 19
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171SAIGON New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 19
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