Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Molinaro, 31, is part of the so-called "new wave" of young French directors. If Back to the Wall bears any message, it is that the new wave is still some distance from shore and seems to be headed in the wrong direction. More American than French, the film lathers its small offering of Frankish realism and nuance with a thick layer of Hollywood formula...
...Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli...
...strange existence is mine, and that of other wanderers. During one long epoch, all is adventure, events; and then, in another, there is nothing but commentary on past events." The combination of violent action and desperate search for the meaning of action marks every Hemingway hero, from the young American ambulance driver in World War I to the old fisherman, far out at sea, engaged in his biggest struggle. The same combination of events and commentary, held in exquisite balance, gives Shanti Andia the thrust of life itself at all its stages: the child's wonder at his discovery...
...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...
...AMERICAN LEAGUE...