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Dramatically, the film loses ground by its episodic, rigidly chronological story treatment, but the loss is more than regained in a powerful climax and several excellent performances. As Dr. Carter, Mel Ferrer gives a sensitive interpretation of a decent man caught in an indecent dilemma. Richard Hylton, in his first screen appearance, plays the difficult role of Carter's son with ease and assurance. Outstanding bit-player is the Rev. Robert Dunn, real-life rector of Portsmouth's St. John's Episcopal Church. His screenplay sermon on tolerance is a little masterpiece of low-keyed natural eloquence...
Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
...Strings. Refusing to surrender it, Crowder raised a loud editorial cry of "suppression." Agreed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The tactics of dictatorship . . . What is being done to the Sentinel will be resented wherever there is a decent respect for freedom of speech and press." Flora union members and other citizens chipped in $3,000 to a "Save the Sentinel" fund. But Crowder needed $5,000 more...
Like the unfortunate hero in Dostoevsky's The Gambler, Miss Stanwyck is essentially a decent person consumed by a hopeless passion for pitting the probable against the possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame...
...with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only at the cost of moral health...