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...disappointed in this transcription of it, but The Story of Temple. Drake-although amply punctuated by shots in which the screen goes black to conceal everything except Director Stephen Roberts' prudence-is more effective than might have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than any previous products of Hollywood. Naturally enough Pop-Eye, the least lovable character in Sanctuary, docs not appear at all in The Story of Temple Drake. Temple is raped by the gangster who, in the book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes...
...picture would have been much better if it had been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht...
...startling clarity; much as one may question Mr. Hemingway's philosophy, he cannot help admiring the technical ability and power which enables him to present it so vigorously and subtly. In the present instance, however, the effect is somewhat destroyed by a presentation of that philosophy slightly more explicit than usual. Towards the end of the tale, where the author becomes quite definite and almost appealing in his references to the "opium of the people," the writing loses some of its force...
Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...
Unlike common soothsayers, Prophet Schacht has prophesied publicly and in explicit terms...