Word: mistreatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk and mistreat me, throwing up to me that I was a love child...
...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...
Well, it was extremely funny, wasn't it -- about as hilarious as a Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
...Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver-go from Germany to the U. S., where the thief tries to prearrange Polikai's match for the championship and to mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek Zbyszko, who also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar...