Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(20th Century-Fox). In a sneak preview of this film at a Manhattan movie theater, a woman in the roped-off guest section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes...
Another question is in order. How could a smoothly expert screenwriter like Nunnally Johnson (The Desert Fox, The Three Faces of Eve) have wrung so much carbonated pap out of a skillfully written Romain Gary novel? "Marriage is the last frontier," says Fonda. "Few men face it without remembering what...
"In any civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit...
The climate of horror develops soon enough. There are unearthly night noises, a ghostly hand scrawls HELP ELEANOR COME HOME, and some force or creature smears blood (or is it red paint?) over the clothes of another of the doctor's girl assistants. Eleanor begins to crack soon enough...
The man who must cope with Hyman Kaplan's daymares is Mr. Parkhill (Hyman renders it "Pockheel"), the earnest and durable idealist who teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes...