Word: slatternly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Biddle, a hood who conjures up a race riot. As an individual or a type, Biddle would seem psychopathic; instead, his role in the film is a symbolic, gathering behind one grinning mask all the virulence of Beaver Canal. In the only role of individuality, Linda Darnell is a slattern trying to escape from her slum background, who betrays and then rescues the Negro doctor (Stephen Poitier) accused of murdering Biddle's brother...
...melodrama gets out of hand. And, like most films of its kind, the picture stacks its cards too obviously in the Negro's favor. Most of its characters are oversimplified blacks and whites. (One exception: the bitter woman, well played by Actress Darnell in a slattern's makeup, who gets over her prejudice against Negroes...
Honored by the Barter Theater of Abingdon, Va.: Actress Shirley Booth, for her playing of a slattern in Broadway's Come Back, Little Sheba. The award: "one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of," and an acre of Virginia land...