Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Seesaw. Uneven but amusing and touching two-character tale of a split-level, ghost-ridden love affair...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
...nabes. Hero Stewart Granger beds down with the wife of a close friend, and it is with the greatest reluctance that she finally returns to her husband. Not so much as a snowflake of retribution drops on either of them; it was, the movie makes clear, a most enjoyable affair for both parties. Because Harry Black is just a potboiler, rather than an "art film," the liberties taken in the picture point up the fact long recognized in Hollywood but only recently acknowledged: the much-publicized Production Code, which once bulldogged producers and exhibitors, is being observed these days about...
...spinster, who lives with an aristocratic family just outside Paris, tells "Valmont" about a plot worthy of Dumas: the haughty old head of the family has locked and bolted his pretty daughter Denise into her bedroom and will not let her out until she swears to break off an affair with a middleaged, married antique dealer. Will nobody rescue Denise and restore her to her beloved...
Miss Blanchard, as the sister Masha who carries on an adulterous and eventually doomed love affair, turns in a mature and persuasive performance. Not only does she know how to use her voice, but what is more important she catches the rhythm of Masha's speeches and shows how the woman suffers. As Baron Tusenbach, Thomas Teal shows himself as accomplished a technician as Miss Blanchard, and projects a wholly appropriate mixture of agony and nobility...