Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a flag-draped card table serving as the bar of justice, the Israeli court was called to order on the very edge of the line of rusting iron bars that mark the border. On one side, Israeli soldiers guarded the prisoners on trial. From the other, officers of Jordan...
H. Chouteau Dyer of St. Louis, Mo., received the Francis Burr Scholarship given to the senior who combines Burr's qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability.
The director, Michael Linenthal, coordinates action and characters adequately, but the actors themselves hardly ever achieve competence. Cathleen would be a fine role for Siobhan McKenna, as Sylvia Weld no doubt realizes, but Miss Weld's half-hearted imitation of Miss McKenna often becomes mannered, and shrinks the great beauty...
...characterizations are handled extremely well--easily identifiable types with enough individuality to be convincing. Cobb perhaps is a little too obvious about his character's psychological condition, especially when he destroys his son's photograph in a moment of aberration, but Begley and Warner are especially good. Fonda himself has a role much more difficult than any other: the attitudes and attentions of all the jurors center on him, and he must handle each in a different way. His involvement is complicated by his own uncertainty about the boy's innocence. He fights his verbal and psychological battles with great...
The technique is documentary. Producer Lionel Rogosin, a 33-year-old textile magnate who quit as president of Beaunit Mills to make this movie, shot every foot of it on the scummy sidewalks and in the smelly bars of the Bowery itself. The main character is a 42-year-old...