Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From it emerges the picture of a "blueeyed giant," ruthless in his personal relations-he was, for instance, coldly unmoved by the attempted suicide of a rejected mistress. Sorge was clever, resourceful and convinced that his dedication to world Communism gave him the right to commit any crime...
...speech, like most of the important ones in this clever melodrama, does not quite carry the intended conviction. The trouble seems to be that Bridget Boland, who wrote the script as well as the play (a hit in London) on which it is based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that...
...Bonn (where there is a treason charge standing against him), Otto John's story of drugged kidnaping and clever fencing with the MVD interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic. The West, having had time to take stock of his defection, had found the loss to Western intelligence less than expected. Strictly concerned with operations inside West Germany, he had had few intelligence secrets to tell the Russians. His propaganda value exhausted, the Communists had given him less and less to do, plainly showing that they also distrusted traitors...
...singing chorus is usually inarticulate, due partly to John Hollander's music; the dancing chorus, while legitimately formal, appears vapid against the strident actors; Cedric Whitman's translation hits the bump that jolts all colloquial renderings. The Greek dramatists are often not colloquial. They are, however, very, too, clever...
...Another clever piece of casting was the contrast between Altshul's heartiness and the effective combination of foolishness and sinisterness with which Paul Burkhardt played the part of "head jailer and assistant tormentor" Wilfred Shadbold. James Greene as Leonard Meryll and Al Hudson as Sir Richard Cholomondeley were adequate in supporting roles. Headsman James Gale was macabre...