Word: caine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanity Fair is constructed like a revolving stage, where city & country and night & day whirl drunkenly together. In the foreground, a naked figure leans out of his window to peer through the gloom at Cain killing Abel in the sunlit distance...
...explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...
Most of the Nazis heard their fates without show of emotion, clicked their heels and walked out of the courtroom. A repentant exception was Jewish Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a notorious Buchenwald "trusty." He pleaded: "You have placed the mark of Cain on my forehead. Any physician who committed the crimes I am charged with deserves to be killed-must be killed. Apply to me the highest therapy that is in your hands." The judges prescribed life imprisonment...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...
Thanks to the fact that the ice was broken with the Wilder-Sistrom movie of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, Hollywood can now get by with filming this kind of shabby "realism." The blessing is mixed. Apparently, U.S. moviegoers have matured to the point where they will stand for reasonably frank images of unhappy marriage, sour love affairs, and of a disease so gravely epidemic as Mr. Young's obsessive desire to stay in the money at all costs. But in this, as in most such "adult" movies, the semi-maturity is well mixed with trashiness...