Word: cedric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...
...recent weeks British and U.S. diplomats in Czechoslovakia have had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being followed. Two weeks ago the Foreign Ministry proudly produced results: British Air Attaché Group Captain Cedric Masterman and U.S. Air Attache Colonel D.E. Teberg, they said, had been "apprehended" in a "clearly demarcated forbidden military zone...
James Mason is a suitably stiff yet dashing Field Marshal. Supported by fetching Jessica Tandy as his wife and Cedric Hardwicke, looking like the archtype of the educated German man-of-action, he manages to convey his problem effectively. His irritation with his master and his hesitation to act upon it seem more real than his exaggerated decisiveness with maps and binoculars. Yet if Rommel seems almost too fine a soldier, Hollywood can be forgiven this concession to folk lore in gratitude for portraying the man as well...
...acting in these romantic scenes as well as in the rest of the film is very difficult to evaluate. Beside the two principals, the picture displays some actors who have in the past shown much competence, including Yul Brynner as the villainous Pharaoh, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as his urbane father, Judith Anderson as a sinister royal servant, and John Derek as Joshua. But their performances here are hampered by the dialogue, a cheap sort of rhetoric that is meant to be elevated and "Biblical," but sounds only like ridiculous affectation. Nor does deMille's work as a director help...
...made a lot of hay in the religious field. But DeMille has not been content to trust merely in God. He has crowded the giant Vista Vision screen with such stars as Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner. Anne Baxter. Edward G. Robinson. Yvonne de Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price. Moreover, DeMille spent ten years in planning the picture, three years and $300,000 in research. After that, he spent almost three months in Egypt and the Holy Land, shooting his key scenes "in the very places where"-so the picture's publicity puts...