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Show cellent supporting cast includes Robert Sterling;, Patricia Dane, Glenda Farrell, Diana Lewis, and Earry Nelson. tually performs the only decent act of his life. Van Heflin establishes himself among the topflight actors of the screen with his characterization of a dissolute gangster attorney who has not yet entirely forgotten the beauty of ideals and the innate courage of humanity. The dependable Edward Arnold appears as Hiss Turner's father. Henry O'Neill impersonates the trusting parole officer who believes be-lieves in Johnny Eager, and an ex- Taylor and Turner Team Up In One Of Year's Best Pictures Robert Taylor, for the first time playing a villainous role unrelieved unreliev-ed by sentiment or sentimentality, proves himself a dramatic star of the first rank in "Johnny Eager," with Lana Turner as his co-star. fay This is the new picture from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which begins be-gins a three-day engagement at the Rivoli theatre Sunday. Taylor has a role which is a distinct departure from anything he has ever done on the screen. He is shown as a flinty-eyed killer with but one redeeming quality, the final realization that in Lana Turner he has met the one great and exciting love of his life, a love for which he lays down his life in a hail of gangland bullets. Miss Turner, as the debutante ( daughter of a district attorney, reaches the peak of her young j career as the girl who loves the j gangster, and for whom he even- |
