Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME...
Mine Own Executioner (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
Ordinarily, such complications merely confuse a movie. In this intelligent production they enrich the picture's general interest and sharpen the melodramatic suspense. Meredith's performance, his best in a long time, could carry the picture singlehanded ; Dulcie Gray is highly satisfactory as his clumsy, devoted wife; and the handsome but somewhat wooden Kieron Moore is effectively used. The picture, made in England by Fox, is well filmed and has a climactic scene high on a fire ladder which is an excellent piece of pure scare...
...Services' Review (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC). Burgess Meredith emceeing a new Army-Air Force show. Guests: Marlene Dietrich, Irving Berlin, Herb Shriner...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...