Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Train from Gun Hill (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a slick saddle-soap opera of TV's "adult'' school, with enough shallow currents of sociology, Greek tragedy and child psychology to titillate horse-opera highbrows...
...Story. A dramatically admirable, brilliantly photographed, but religiously rather shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun's inner battle between love of God and love of mankind. With Audrey Hepburn...
...Story. A dramatically admirable, brilliantly photographed but religiously rather shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun's inner battle between love of God and love of mankind. With Audrey Hepburn...
...meet again some of Falstaff's wonderful cronies from the Henry plays: the red-nosed Bardolph (Edward Asner); the swaggering Pistol (Richard Easton); Nym (Severn Darden), a "fellow frights English out of his wits"; and the aged Justice Shallow (Will Geer...
...colors are rich and sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch the heart...