Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class, the chief victim is Basini (Marian Seidowsky), a dim-witted boy who steals some money and then finds himself blackmailed into blind obedience by his discoverers. Nightly, in an attic over the dormitory, the two young extortionists sadistically beat Basini, who submits to every indignity with the passivity of a pack horse...
Torless never engages in the brutality, but he becomes a pliant onlooker-revolted by sadism, yet unwilling to murmur a word to the authorities. Even tually, the boys' nocturnal brutality cannot be contained in an attic; during one hysterical afternoon, the entire student body participates in an orgy of cruelty and hangs Basini by the heels...
...There's this monster in the attic, but we don't want to admit we've built it or even admit that it's there," says Watkins.In his true-life-story-which-could-easily-happen-to-you-and-yours, he tries to make us face the monster. The actors are for the most part local citizens, amateurs. The film was made on location, much of it with a hand-held camera. The result is a film as gripping--and as distant--as any documentary of Nazi war crimes...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* Dean Martin plays it straight in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1963), also featuring Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney and Yvette Mimieux...
...acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...