Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinatra acts as niftily as he sings. He is the picture of the springiest heel that ever walked himself over and fell flat on his face, and the portrait was not an easy one to draw. The objection can always be made that Frankie is only playing Sinatra, a well...
The scene is over-written, as is the entire picture. There are too many scenes of boudoir and barnyard love. The character of Angelo is quite unbelievable. He is presented as the kind, gentle, fun-loving peasant, a sort of Italian Burt Lancaster.
At the film's completion, one cannot help but feel that the story was largely a vehicle for sex, and certainly every character, in his or her own way, fairly radiates sex appeal. Each actor does his job well, but each one, regrettably, does it too often.
Two typical qualities mark the third volume of Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (there is a final volume on The Nineteenth Century yet to come). One quality is control; Churchill manages to grasp a huge and chaotic period (1688-1815) without ever letting a war...
When she meets the hated Gaseler, the Nazi who was responsible for her husband's death at Kalinovka, Nella has a moment of wild hope that reality has at last broken through the interminable bad movie of life. But the film grinds on, the director calls for the cinema...