Word: woo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What defeats the movie is a poverty of invention along the way and a curious indecision as to whether to play for farce or melodrama. For a while, as a Los Angeles lady detective trying to woo secrets out of a villain (Raymond Burr), Actress Trevor deliberately burlesques a movie vamp. After that, whatever travesty the picture makes of its own plot seems purely unintentional...
...London's Paddington station his tune changed. His secretary met him with the news that Labor's lead was slipping fast. Bevan sucked in his breath, grunted: "I don't like it." Then he said: "We don't seem to have much success wooing the middle classes, do we? You can't woo them; they want a strong man to lead them...
...romantic rendezvous. The inspector tries in vain to exorcise the ghost, who refuses to vanish until he notices the girl unconsciously responding to a flesh-&-blood suitor. Even then the girl all but dies of losing him; it requires a whole persuasive symphony of mundane attractions to woo her back to life...