Word: bunuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrayal of lower class sordidness and misery, The Young and the Damned has no great social message; it is instead a vivid portrayal of rottenness under the log of a Mexican city. In this role it succeeds remarkably. Luis Bunuel has mixed elements disgusting enough to sicken, with others realistic enough to frighten. The result is a depressing, albeit excellent movie. It contains little of the traditionally tragic. Its themes are frustration, unnatural relationships, and violence; its heroes, street urchins, blind beggars, and murderers...
Despite the subject matter, Bunuel has prevented his film from becoming maudlin. It is frighteningly real and human. With excellent handling of an unobtrusive camera, and skillful direction of a relatively untrained cast, Bunuel deftly portrays naked reality...
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Dancigers & Ehrlich; United Artists), filmed in Mexico and directed by Spain's expatriate Luis (The Yowng and the Damned) Bunuel, is played to the hilt by Ireland's former Abbey Player Dan O'Herlihy. It will carry many a moviegoer back to the long afternoons of childhood when he pored over the pages of Daniel Defoe's classic...
...from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship's dog and cat, with a home abuilding and goats to tend, the castaway seems secure in his growing self-sufficiency. But fever comes, and he is finally racked by the even greater terrors of loneliness. Director Bunuel and Actor O'Herlihy are particularly fine in picturing the despair of a man alone. The suggestion of it comes in O'Herlihy's bemused fingering of the women's clothes that he has salvaged from the wreck; the note deepens with the death and burial...
...Young and the Damned. A savage juvenile delinquency drama with a largely amateur cast, filmed in Mexico by Spain's Luis Bunuel (TIME, March...