Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...movie that now breaks the suspense is a chase-melodrama with little suspense of its own. Faith plays a passionate hussy who gets her hooks into a remarkably gullible physician (Robert Mitchum). She involves him in a drunken brawl that kills her husband (Claude Rains), then prods him into fleeing with her across the Mexican border. Dazed by a concussion, Dr. Mitchum goes on compounding the crime long after it becomes obvious that Faith is a fugitive from a psychiatrist's couch...
Shadow & Substance. In Passaic, N.J., Joseph Gardella, arrested for drunken driving, explained that he had been repairing a tavern refrigerator, attributed his condition to fumes from the methyl chloride used as a cooling fluid...
...most part the other characters are earthbound creatures who cannot escapee society's rules. Outstanding in their roles are George Howe, Eliot Makcham, and Peter bull, as the Mayor, the Chaplain, and the Justice of Cool Clary. Esme Percy steals a brief scene when he appears as a drunken psalm-singing ragman. The other players are consistently fine. Much of the credit for the smooth and well-paced performance goes to Gielgud, who direced. Oliver Messel's scenery and costumes are wisely simple and unobtrusive...
Through the Rye. In Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Frank P. Anzellotti dismissed a drunkenness charge against George Shirley when Shirley proved himself sober enough to spell the name of his home town, nearby Punxsutawney, Pa. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the charge against Abdulla ben Brahim was reduced from drunken driving to reckless driving when Abdulla proved his sobriety by walking around the police station on his hands...
...times during "City Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...