Athena (M-G-M). For Hollywood musicals, 1954 has been a good year. M-G-M led off with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Warner followed with A Star Is Born, and Fox with Carmen Jones. Now M-G-M has made a musical burlesque of some California cults. The idea is brutally chewed up in the execution, but enough remarkable bits and pieces land on the screen to make Athena well worth a look.
The story: Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) has everything a young man could want—prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but...
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