Word: calloused
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...shocks, the Army's tough little Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk gave the nation some advice. Said he: the armed services do their best to salvage a battered body. But the harder job of healing a battered spirit is up to family & friends. "Don't be callous ... and don't be oversympathetic and overhelpful. Treat him as a normal human being...
Much as it would seem to indicate a hurried action on the part of Hollywood moguls to capitalize on the recent interest in Morocca, through the efforts of the stars and bang-up plot, the picture holds a good deal of entertainment value. Mumphrey Bograt at the callous, but secretly sentimental tough guy finally becomes a martyred lover. As for Miss Bergman, she makes every other publicity photo out of Hollywood blush for shame...
...Bogart, who couldn't play this sort of role wrong if he tried, is right in character as a guy named Rick, except that something new has been added. Besides an ill-concealed strain of sentimentality, Bogart, the soldier of fortune, has acquired a social consciousness under his callous shell which, we are told, caused him to do his usual tommy-gunning with the Loyalists in Spain and which finally causes him to become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female cigar store...
...Herculean task of portraying Maugham's derelict hero, in his progressive states of degeneracy falls to Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest...
...machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back in '36, in his pre-fifth-symphony days, he was considered a decadent by the Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just for the fun of it. Soon afterwards, however, he had a startling change of heart, dropped his former pan-European artistic ideals, and became overnight the musical exponent of the new social gospel. The politicians were quick...