Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sebastian speaks his piece in a vivid, gifted, rather artificial language, like a Celtic rhapsodist. Sample...
Paul Muni and James Hilton are combined in "We Are Not Alone" to produce what might easily prove the best picture of the year. A man who is one of the best actors alive has portrayed in the story adapted from Hilton's vivid novel perhaps his most thoroughly human movie role...
...names, words, battles, songs, commanders, Rolfe writes hardly ever as an individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject to the narrowness and reticence of its kind, supplementing and to be supplemented by such a vivid personal history as Alvah Bessie's (TIME...
...character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren's story...
...until, psychologically speaking, the sets are covered with the groaning bodies of the wounded. Perhaps the mental gore is overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain on the acting abilities of even the Misses Davis and Hopkins. Yet the conflict of their two vivid personalities--the essence of the plot--is basically so well presented that the foibles of direction and script-writing are subordinate...