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Our Dorothy McGuire movies this week occupy two ends of the mid-50s Hollywood spectrum: a low-budget black-and-white noirish crime thriller for Republic,\xa0Make Haste to Live\xa0(1954), and a vibrantly colorful Cinemascope travelogue romance for Fox,\xa0Three Coins in the Fountain\xa0(1954). We find plenty to recommend in both, from\xa0Make Haste to Live's stylish cinematography (by John L. Russell of\xa0Moonrise\xa0and\xa0Psycho\xa0fame) and palpable nastiness to McGuire's odd comedic chemistry with Clifton Webb in\xa0Three Coins. As McGuire seriously settles into the "mother and spinster roles" part of her career, we consider what kind of scope individual roles of this kind gave her, and so far they're looking as eccentric as any "love interest" roles she had in the past, which is good news.\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 MAKE HASTE TO LIVE (1954) [dir. William A. Seiter]

0h 35m 50s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954) [dir. Jean Negulesco]

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