Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love as a boy all pass before the camera as expected. The audience moves leisurely along with the film to the time when, at thirty, Schweitzer made his decision to study medicine and travel to Africa as a missionary...
When Smiley gets the oil on how he's been done in, he's that sick about it he just humps the bluey, and for the next two days, while the whole mob goes mullocking about the outback with gully-rakers, the boy don't seem to have a bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course...
Three Violent People (Paramount), a frazzled old carpetbag about a Confederate veteran fighting off a Yankee land-grabber, makes one (and only one) original contribution: Tom Tryon, a 31-year-old bit-part boy from Broadway who, in his first good screen part as the one-armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...
...wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at once, and his fever for the tables raged in impotence. Every day, when he went for his walk, the count would bully the doorman, who, fearing for his job, would force his son (Piero Bilancioni), a boy about ten years old, to play cards with the old rip for the usual stakes: everything the nobleman said he owned against the common bumf that fills a boy's pockets. Invariably the boy would win in a breeze, and the no-count count, pitiful and terrible...
...coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop. By the time the Widow Odom tells him in Florida, "Boy, you're getting handsomer than the Devil in snakeskin shoes," Polk is reasonably immune to the surprises of life...