Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remind your clever caricaturist that the old lady in the funny hat who is a member of the Anti-Vivisectionist Society, or any other protesting minority group, historically gives as valid and essential a contribution to Americanism as the research workers who have developed Salk vaccine...
Then he was suddenly quite serious. "The clever fellows may argue eternally about the utility or inutility, the reliability or unreliability of vivisection. The real issue is the moral issue. It is a godless action, to cut apart these pathetic animals who cannot speak to save themselves. It is a godless action, and it bespeaks a godless people...
...deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses in every gimmick, it usually tosses it in twice. And it not only spells out every word, it has a resolutely meager vocabulary...
Jean Boyer's direction is a bit frenetic, and it is easy--albeit not too disturbing--to lose track of the girls' identity in the general shuffle. An engaging film with few pretensions, My Seven Little Sins will probably amuse a person who thinks the title a clever play on words...
...clever is your cover; how true its contents...