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Several of the book's horrible happenings are preserved in the movie, most of them made good in the end. The murderess (a nice girl really) is acquitted, the illegitimate girl is reconciled with her mother, and the nude-swimming couple are really in love and get married. Essentially, the movie is about normal love and family relationships. But Peyton Place is so pretty, its homes are so full of healthy, handsome, well-dressed, good-hearted youngsters, its air so thick with platitudes, its ending so obviously destined to be happy, that it is hard to believe that...
...citizens of Peyton Place are performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
...everything for the revolution." She could not understand why Russia, a friend of Hungary, had sent in troops, and she insisted that the aims of the students who took up arms were not subversive. Said Freedom Fighter Toth: "Whatever I might have done, I do not consider myself a murderess...
Last week Diana was learning lines for her next movie role - the condemned murderess in the film version of Yield to the Night (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954). She feels that English directors are wary of sex ("I don't think they know quite what to do with it"), says that after playing in a death cell, she will be happy to get back into a boudoir: "I might as well cash in on my sex now while I've got it. It can't last forever...
...fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution made murder a pleasure...