Cinema: Mark IV

LITTLE MISS MARKER Directed and Written by Walter Bernstein

His nose is tuberous, his cheeks look as if they contained acorns, his eyes are little and mean. Walter Matthau, for it is he, allows these seedy features to slump into a look of distaste that is almost Fieldsian and says in a voice like that of a gear-grinding machine, "Put him down for a sawbuck, and don't let the kid out of your sight."

Matthau, who plays a hard-case bookie named Sorrowful Jones, has just violated his principles by offering credit to a tapped-out loser,...

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