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Before she revolts, Molly is a monosyllabic young lady, who mopes in the summer house, reading comic books (Super Mouse). Although she is the closest thing to a heroine in the play, Molly is dangerous when peeved, since she apparently murders the neurotic young boarder, Vivian. In spite of her faults, however, Molly snares a husband, who loves her bacause she only "half hears" him, a good thing considering the rot he talks about. doggedly he bears with her through exchanges like: "Molly, we can't stay here playing cards in the Lobster Bowl cocktail lounge until...
...Summer boarder at the Doud's in Denver...
Augie March had not yet attained the age of immorality when his father abandoned Augie's simple-minded mother and her three sons, one an idiot, in a Chicago slum. The impoverished Jewish family lived on charity and the wits of Grandma Lausch, an imperious boarder who tried to teach Augie principles of good behavior. But Augie tailed along with neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming...
...stage. With few close-ups, the camera prowls the squalid little home of the Delaneys like a fascinated eavesdropper. It hides at the bottom of the stairs and catches the plump disarray of Lola as she wanders sleepily down to answer the door-bell; it watches the young boarder nuzzling her boy-friend; it peers across the room at Lola, confidently alone and wriggling happily to exotic music from the radio. Throughout the film, the viewer feels himself an embarrassed intruder on the intimacy of a real and frightening household--a tribute to Mann's direction and the expertness...
...alcoholic trying to reconcile himself to his life with Lola, he has just the right tone of quiet and guarded desperation. And when the guard collapses and his bitterness and frustration explode in a tremendous jag, his performance has a terrifying intensity. To the smaller role of the young boarder who innocently shatters the deceptive calm of the Delaney home, Terry Moore brings an effective combination of naivete and seductiveness...