Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production. Raimu lends a fine mixture of broad humor and human dignity to the performance of his role. He is equally effective when pleading with the youth's parents for a righting of the wrong done his daughter or when describing the ample charms of his late wife. This blend of the humorous with the elements of human tragedy is characteristic of this fine film which retains both humor and dignity in its treatment of a human problem...
...Locket (RKO Radio) is a dull blend of two of Hollywood's hardest-worn current themes: psychiatry and vicious womanhood. Laraine Day is a sweet-faced wanton who lies, cheats, steals and murders her way through the ruination of three remarkably gullible leading men (Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond...
...ballyhoo, the costliest (some $6,000,000) and longest (134 minutes) horse opera ever made was finally being shown to the public. In Los Angeles, David 0. Selznick's Technicolored Duel in the Sun was running simultaneously in two theaters. Local reviewers found the extravaganza a titillating blend of wild oats and tame, well-worn plot, in which virtue emerged triumphant, but low-bodiced vice seemed to have all the fun. Nevertheless, the furor was up to Selznick's expectations-if not quite the kind of furor he had paid his advertising money...
...have sunk through the floor. The Soviet Government had caught the Italian police redhanded in the act of disseminating a confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
Many of the individual chapters are subtly, brilliantly managed; here & there (as in Vol. VIII, entitled Verdun) they blend into a more or less related whole. But ordinarily Author Romains moves his characters about by whim or wind, endows his chance encounters, political musings, philosophic sermons, fancy seductions with no more apparent interrelation than that of news stories in the daily press...