Word: bestial
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...principal role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized but not particularly bestial "panther woman" (Kathleen Burke). Miss Burke, a Chicago dentist's assistant whose pointed face, sloping eyes, fuzzy hair and graceful physique won her the part against 60,000 other girls who entered Paramount's contest for it last summer, pads about the island with the dubious manner natural...
...Reginald Marsh is not a lady's painter. Like Hogarth, he takes crowds for his subject, vulgar, sweating, bestial crowds. He likes to see burlesque shows, dance marathons, bread lines, bathing beaches. He draws them with a line that approaches the British master in brilliance but with a color that is still as crude as his subjects. All his sympathies are reserved for locomotives. Wrote the New York Evening Post...
...life of Dostoevsky was closely connected with his work. Epileptic fits, occasional poverty, and a long Siberian exile in a bestial prison camp, made him spasmodically elated or despondent. He discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather...
...producers of East of Borneo, instead of sending the whole cast to location east of Borneo, despatched cameramen who photographed, apparently, the entire bestial population of the Malay peninsula. These shots are interspersed with closeups of the actors in a property jungle at Universal City and with a few glimpses of the more docile snakes and crocodiles in the Universal menagerie. Although to a blind-folded spectator the animal noises would be indistinguishable from those of a defective steam radiator, they are effective and even terrifying when combined with good photography. Morbid shots: a man being devoured by alligators...
...witnesses. No war record is any excuse for such depravity. The total suspense of law brought about a state of anarchy which invited the worst among the Legionnaires, and there were many of this class, to join with the scum of the city in presenting a bestial display...