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...reader meets Gorer in London shortly before World War II on the night that he seduces Cassy Beaumont, which is the night that his unsuccessful one-man show closes. The teen-age daughter of an English father and a West Indian mother, Cassy is so pleased with the quasi rape and the beating that Gorer gives her afterward that she soon moves in with him. Their life together is the scrounging, violent hell without which she would have been disappointed. And Gorer keeps on painting, and cursing and talking-lewdly, sharply, wisely-and grabbing any woman who comes within...
KENMORE: Two Women stars Sophia Loren in the best and only acting performance of her career--portraying a mother who flees with her daughter to the mountains during the Italian Campaign of World War II, and returns too soon. Its rape scene outdoes Bergman, and is perhaps as stark as anything filmed...
...road of experience that spirals down the magic mountain of childhood, down into a world without hockey, a world where she is suddenly evil and cruel as well as good and kind, where a furious mistress throws champagne in her face and a busboy (David Saire) tries to rape her and she herself in a girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly to end in the middle of nowhere. But the Englishman smiles gently...
...most vehement objections to the film are directed at a scene in which a Negro unsuccessfully attempts to rape a white woman. The shock of the attack drives the girl to suicide, and the Klan avenges her death...
...neutral, unilaterally disarmed Britain could only encourage Russia's "more aggressive elements" and "prove profoundly dangerous for world peace." To the left-wing slogan "No War over Berlin," Gaitskell replied forcefully that World War II had broken one year after Neville Chamberlain shrugged off Hitler's rape of Czechoslovakia-"a small nation that didn't matter very much...