Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
...other hand, "The Country Doctor" makes no pretense at all, and the result is a completely guileless, and charming picture with a simple plot built around the biggest human interest story of them...
Author Stribling writes so simply that he seems guileless. His own cryptic opinions are buried deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...
...conjuring up the dreadful possibility that, in the event of the non-adoption of a new constitution, the club might fall into the clutches of the N.S.L. The CRIMSON has also in the past suggested that the N.S.L. plots to wrest control of the Liberal Club from its guileless members or to commit them to policies contrary to their liberal principles. It might, therefore, be well to clarify our position, both in this matter and in general. We believe that the Liberal Club contributes valuable discussions of current social problems, and that it affords a possibility of useful action based...
...University, Cecille de Mille again exhibits his technique as the master of the spectacle. Thirty tame, toothless lions, many fine Roman matrous dressed in the best 1932 drapery, flashing chariots, and tons of Roman cutlery, not to mention several yards of early Christian beards, exciting pagan dancing, and several guileless babes to add the pathetic note, go into the production of a piece that rivals "Ben Hur" in intensity of action and elaborateness. Fredric March, as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome, who goes to death in the arena because of his love for Mercia (Elissa Landi), one of the persecuted...