Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Widmark, broke the code of the West by making a hit in his very first picture, "Red River." His punishment, like Widmark's, has been banishment to the salt mines of Grade B for the required term of apprenticeship. It is still a pleasure to watch Ireland slouch casually around a set, but this time his effortlessness is wasted on a miserable part...
Alias Nick Beal (Paramount) is a modern morality play subtly fashioned around the text: "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Into the life of a gang-busting prosecutor (Thomas Mitchell) floats a mysterious character known as Nick Beal (Ray Milland). At first Beal supplies the prosecutor with evidence against a big-time gambler; then he stands at the lawyer's elbow, goading his political ambitions. By the time Mitchell has been persuaded to play ball with a corrupt, vote-powerful political machine, it is clear that...
...that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...
...deeper difficulty is that the world around Aaron Gadd never seems to be the world of 1848. Doubtless there were revivalists as blunt as the Reverend Mr. Chippler, missionaries as self-seeking as Balthazar Harge and theologians as long-winded as Deacon Popplewood. But there were others, too. Whatever else Americans had or lacked 100 years ago, a belief in God was fundamental to most of them. In The God-Seeker, except for Aaron Gadd, Author Lewis leaves it only to Babbitts in frock coats...
...swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...