Word: convincingness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This time Ilse was being tried by her own countrymen, who grabbed her when the U.S. set her free from Landsberg prison last year. Ilse had served four years for crimes against allied inmates, got out when an Army review board concluded that although she "encouraged, aided and participated" in...
Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in...
To be convincing, a movie about a police state must maintain an atmosphere of futility and terror. "State Secret" almost succeeds, but eventually dies out in a weak ending. The acting, photography, and producing cannot carry the plot all the way, though they are excellent in themselves.
Dr. Marlowe, sought by Vosnian secret police because he knows of the death of General Niva, the dictator, is capably played by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Fairbanks portrays the doctor's fear and confusion through facial expressions rather that distraught mouthings common to such roles. Marlowe's trouble with the Vosnian...
In the role Thomas Mitchell moves with superb case from one thought to another, from the present to the past. His acting is restrained for the most part, and it is completely convincing. Willy Loman's emotions, ideals, hopes, and eventual disillusionment are all terrifyingly real. That is Thomas Mitchell...