Word: bondy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Efficiently worded by Scenarists P. J. Wolfson & Ernest Pagano, and played to the last suggestive note by a capital supporting cast of non-star names (Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn. James Ellison. Frances Mercer. Franklin Pangborn), Vivacious Lady needs only a snipping-out of sophomoric circumstances here & there to bring it to the top comedy class. Most ribald sequence, primed by Director George Stevens to go off in the Hays office's face, comes when Bridegroom Stewart tries to carry Bride Rogers over the threshold of a Pullman drawing room, to find it already occupied by a truculent, long...
...Human Hearts (Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi, James Stewart. Charles Coburn; TIME...
...Human Hearts (Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi, James Stewart; TIME...
...Human Hearts (Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, James Stewart; TIME...
...Human Hearts" really deals with human values, and has little or no love interest. Loyalty, gratitude, unselfishness, the relative worth of spiritual and material welfare, these are the values which James Stewart learns, slowly, painfully, in a picture as fine as it is occasionally lugubrious. Walter Huston and Beulah Bondi, who are cast as Mr. Stewart's parents, impecunious Ohio settlers, bring dignity and feeling to their parts. A pseudo-historical epic, "Of Human Hearts" has many flaws, but is so sympathetic that one is inclined to overlook them. "Swing Your Lady," on the same bill, is not recommended...