Word: monstering
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...tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From 40,000 Fathoms...
...best friend to jail because his office accounts do not balance. Righteous as Robespierre. Nemeth finally convinces himself that his Russian-born mistress is really a White Russian and denounces her. The girl commits suicide, and for a moment-but a moment only-Comrade Nemeth sees himself for the monster he has become...
...three Americans hung out unobtrusively in cocktail bars frequented by delegates, never pushed themselves, but were always available. Cushing had ordered a huge (7 ft. by 12 ft.) relief model of Squaw Valley at a cost of $2,800, had it shipped to Paris for $3,000. The monster proved so big it would not fit through the door of the I.O.C. exhibit room, but after lodging was found for it down the street, delegates went out of their way to go see it, thereby giving the Americans a chance to practice the soft sell away from competing exhibits...
...Morningside; Columbia) is one of the best monster pictures ever made for children. In fact, it is so horrifyingly good that some parents may want to scout it before letting their children see it. A new process called Dynamation, in which foam-rubber puppets are filmed in relation to live figures, has produced some chillingly realistic visions of monstrosity...
...sooner has the customer rubbed his magic wallet than presto! the first monster, a 50-ft. orange Cyclops, materializes on the screen and comes charging straight at him-the colossal eye rolling around in its prodigious socket like a cannon ball in a bathtub, the fangs dripping like bloody stalactites. Luckily, the wicked magician (Torin Thatcher) puts a whammy on the brute, but then he also puts a whammy on the beautiful princess (played by Kathryn Grant, billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets...