Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild Party (Security; United Artists) is a crude thriller that pretends, when it has nothing worse to do, to be a bloody study of juvenile delinquency. The actors all try desperately to talk reet, but somehow it comes out wrong. Actor Quinn is "Big Tom . . . ex-football player, ex-hero, ex-person," who now has nothing to do but "just kind of pleasure myself around." On the night of the wild party he is "coal-mine low," and snarls, "1 gotta tear the world...
...progressive. Big Tom is there, and he dances with the girl in a forward way. "That's how I operate." he murmurs, breathing hard, "two times normal and twice as fast." They all drive away in Tom's car, and for most of the next hour Actor Quinn has nothing to do but knock the hero down and push the heroine over...
...Robert L. Jacks; United Artists) is a conventional western with a more or less conventional moral, viz., if you try to run a gunman out of town when the wrist of your gun hand is broken, be sure the scriptwriter is on your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good...
...sorriest aspect of Uncle Willie is not that its story makes Abie's Irish Rose seem positively avantgarde; it is not even its stale and stupid quips, but rather its greasy benevolence. Fairly often, to be sure. Actor Skulnik shakes himself free from it: with a demonstration of how to walk so that shoes will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician...
Died. Whitford Kane, 75, genial, jowly, Irish-born Shakespearean actor, who acted Hamlet's whimsical first gravedigger in 23 productions, helped bury some 40 Ophelias; of cancer; in Manhattan...