Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
Boston Garden is a modern Colossueum. Under its blinding are lights, the best hockey players of the world engage in brutal, high-speed, modified mayhem. The incredible pace of pro hockey puts the amateur college game in the unfortunate position of a poor relation...
...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...
Unfortunately, however, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, have chosen to alter the usual happy reconciliation of the two lovers to parallel the ballet-plot. The result is a wrenching, brutal, and totally unnecessary tragic ending to a story that contains no other tragic elements...