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...with the opening curtain. Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields have taken a wornout family comedy theme and used it to glue together a formidable number of jokes about six, child psychology, and television. They have written a farcical Date with Judy, funnier than its television counterparts but a little pointless for two hours in the theatre...
Eventually, the two social threads come together, producing the final tragic shooting. Although the film lacks many of the directional techniques so common today--contrived transitions between scenes, double-jointed camera angles and low pressure acting--Renoir has forced a rather pointless story into the mold of his own talent and brought off a startling satire. Working with confusion and generally weak characterization he makes both elements seem well calculated and essential elements of the picture...
...Love (United Artists) for no particular reason transposes the 1949 Alfred Hayes novel, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, from Rome to Paris. The novel, an equally pointless attempt to transpose A Farewell to Arms into a contemporary setting, proved that you can't get high twice on the same old vermouth. Act of Love shows that the third time around can be a distinctly sobering experience. The hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl...
...concentrated effort. Every phrase plays a key part in the whole; each line is at once a beautiful thing in itself and an ornament to the rest. If even the second violins play sloppily, an excellent chorus cannot atone; if a recitative is hurried, a perfectly paced aria becomes pointless. The grandeur of Handel, like the glory of Bach, cannot rest on Yuletide spirit alone...
...lacrosse coach, William Harkness, however, said last night that Yale will wait to see what the Crimson decides before setting its plans. Since only Harvard and Yale lacrosse teams were going to Bermuda, it would be pointless for either one to go alone, he said. "We would like to cooperate with Harvard," Harkness added...