Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the causes of this English cinema introversion may be, and despite the "all that is British is good" results it leads to, it must be admitted that the films in question have been done in a highly literate vein. Bit it would be refreshing to see the same English film qualities of insight, subtlety, and pictorial honesty applied to non-English and perhaps less prejudiced fields now and then. Despite their quality, the same English faces and the same British virtues threaten to bore emotionally and intellectually...
...work is limited in scope and almost completely unexciting, it does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that is not easy to digest...
With the here only a silent bit of fluff, an extremely light touch was needed lest the downy plot be brushed away. The touch provided fills the bill, for the writers stress the humor, underscore the sentiment, yet never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed...
...plans, but seeing merely that things run from day to day. He welcomes all students with difficulties, but especially the rough ten percent that gets "involved" with the delicate machinery of parietal and scholastic rules; in these cases, Bender is both judge and jury. He probably champs at the bit at many of these interviews, while he plans a Harvard that is a more socially conscious community...
...final act West slowed down enough to give some meaning to his lines, but he never managed to get across the admittedly poorly presented ideas of Stockmann. Jack Hodges, playing Stockmann's brother, was a welcome antidote with his well-paced, intelligent delivery, and Robert Miller contributed a bit of professional--though perhaps inaccurate--comedy...