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Review title: A tedious, heavy misfire from Mankiewicz, Robinson
Product review: It's hard to believe that the Joe Mankiewicz of All About Eve and Letter to Three Wives served up this platter of overcooked pasta. The story is like bad Arthur Miller (or just Arthur Miller). Doing a stage Eye-talian (he sounds worse than Chico Marx), Robinson overplays as a mustachioed patriarch who founds a bank for immigrants; when it gets into trouble, his four sons fall upon one another's throats. What elements of noir creep into the plot (along with Susan Hayward) are neutralized by the ethnic stereotyping. Robinson plays ear-splitting opera and his family eats nothing but spaghetti. It's irksome that this "serious" drama -- of no visual interest whatsoever -- made it to video when more unusual and better realized movies (Caged, Desert Fury, 99 River Street) have not.
