Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matthew is told with starling simplicity. Character is left as inscrutable as it is in the Bible's objective narrative: we learn men's motives only through their words, and all Matthew's dialogue is taken verbatim from the New Testament--no interpolations by studio hacks. Costumes and settings too...
"I hope," he says, "I have enough character not to let this blow my head out of proportion. I'm Government property until March 1967, and then I'll probably get out and into the entertainment world." He's got a healthy start. He has just signed...
Shadow expends most of its energy on flame-licked scenes of the Arab-Israeli war, and Douglas expends his trying to find a clue to the character of Marcus; but the smoke screens dreamed up by Writer-Director Melville Shavelson are nearly impenetrable. As Marcus' unhappy wife, Angie Dickinson...
Herbert Adams as Jamie also has a monotony of tone. Ironically enough, his character--which should have the coldest mask--is played with the most warmth and sympathy. However, he gets too involved, too early. Never having worn his cynicism with detachment, his last-act confession of feeling has to...
Miss Gitter alone fully brings out the momentary glimpses at the depths in her character. Her shifts between excuse and denial of re-starting her dope habit again, or between attacks on James' drinking and a quiet pride in his love are done quickly and smoothly. Her final monolog, in...