Word: half-mad
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...Nason, as the lethargic but lovely adornment of a banker's bed, is the only member of the cast who seems really to be having a good time. Her acting is exaggerated, but happy. As the inevitable French butler, Earl Edgerton is dull, but in the role of a half-mad old man, David Roberts gives the finest performance of the evening. He is imaginative, witty and relaxed. In contrast, Lucia French, playing a disillusioned actress, seems embarrassed and tense...
This world is one that makes genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...
...This half-crazy and . . . ridiculous old man." "That half-mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything, and be a Dictator." Thus, on two occasions, did Queen Victoria fulminate against her pet hate, Liberal William Ewart Gladstone. In ferocious agreement with the Queen were the House of Lords, the City magnates and all good Tories-down to the anonymous songster who bellowed from the music-hall boards that Gladstone
...Paul Anthelme, I Confess depicts a young Catholic priest, who, after hearing a real murderer's confession, is accused of the same murder. As the young priest, callow Montgomery Clift turns in a fine, sensitive performance. But by far the best actor is O. E. Hasse. Playing the warped, half-mad killer, he excites pity and hate with equal verve. Adding new zest to a standard role, Karl Malden plays the relentless, somewhat sadistic police inspector. Brian Aherne, a jovial but brilliant Crown Prosecutor, and Anne Baxter as the frustrated lover of the young priest, round out an exceptional cast...
Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson's comeback as a half-mad oldtime movie star; with William Holden and Erich von Stroheim (TIME...