Word: realism
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...polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders which are all but shown on the screen, one suicide, maddening jealousy and maddening love, puffing locomotives and sooty slums: this should give you your fill of "reality" for more than one night...
...Fight for Life runs for only 30 minutes. Dramatic without ever being theatrical, it makes even such top-notch Hollywood medical pictures as Men in White and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet seem unreal and stagy. In its realism it sustains the suspense luckily caught a few minutes each year on epic newsreels...
...from memory. A Jew, he spent his youth in Tsarist Russia. In 1912 he won minor fame by being the first Cubist to exhibit in Brazil. In 1923 he went there to live. As a Brazilian, brown-haired Lasar Segall has painted jungles, plantations and coffee-handling with a realism that does his naturalization papers credit. Last week, at 49, Artist Segall made his U. S. debut at Manhattan's Neumann-Willard Gallery with a show of oils, water colors and etchings. Critics were impressed...
...march and massacre, played by a topheavily male cast, whose embarrassing way of laughing at Spencer Tracy's feeblest sallies gets loonier as they get hungrier, is more than run-of-the-mill cowboys and Indians. Responsible are King Vidor's veteran directing, his earnest regard for realism in frontier history, some first-rate Technicolor photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find...
Noteworthy in the approach to the story has been the incorporation of "realism." We hope the Hays office will be as tolerant in the future, for such details make the story live. Rhett's final "I don't give a damn" jars most but is unimportant in this connection compared to the scene where a soldier has his leg amputated without an anaesthetic, or to the scene of Scarlett's mother lying dead upon the bier in war-ruined Tara. Throughout the film the audience remains convinced that it is 1865 and the characters do breathe...