Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keener their desire to throw stones into it and watch the ripples. The darkness of the human mind and the dirt of existence are what they love to dwell on; and they do so to their heart's content (and the horror of the audience) in "The Human Beast," current film at the Fine Arts...
...rumble of railroad trains and the feverish knock of a mad brain: this is the not exactly gleeful melody of "The Human Beast". Jean Gabin is the uncouth locomotive driver whose blood is polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders...
Aretino wrote the beast's Last Will & Testament, assigning Hanno's various organs to those cardinals they most scandalously fitted. Leo made him his court jester, and on the next fat chance-a series of verses burlesquing the deadlocked conclave that followed Leo's death-Aretino made himself famous all over Europe...
...Human Beast (Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Ledoux; TIME, March...
...Human Beast (French). Cunningly Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion] contrasts the distraction of human lives (in this filming of Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...