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They reminisced about their college days as they walked through the Yard. One of them, described as an "old sentimental brute," lovingly recalled happier days on the top floor of Thayer...
...Odets script, adapted for the screen by James Poe, has been beautifully grained and shaped by two fine craftsmen, and it takes every ounce of strain that Producer-Director Robert Aldrich leans against it. Aldrich gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps...
...look of a man doing such assorted things as walking a tightrope, mounting and descending a staircase, and catching fluttering butterflies. At his funniest, Marceau mimes both David and Goliath in a tour de force of machine-gun character switches, from the sweet, flute-playing shepherd to the hulking brute and back again, as their historic battle rages. At his perceptive best, in Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, he accomplishes in less than three memorable minutes what many a novelist has failed to do in volumes: Marceau's youth strides radiantly onward until, by imperceptible degrees, he slows...
...worldly problems seemed to be many, moreover. A former fellow tenant of Grover's describes him as "antagonistic, a brute, and a pretty fresh monkey, always ready to pick up his fists...
...they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports some 200 such bands, and the demand for the music has erupted throughout the Caribbean. A fine sample on LP is now available: The Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua, B.W.I. (Cook...