Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable early-season clip of .509-good enough to lead both leagues. He has already broken the National League endurance mark with 895 consecutive games, boasts the highest lifetime slugging average (.580) in the league, has moved up to fourth among major leaguers in total bases (behind Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker...
...losing another game (7-3), that they lay moulting and mute in the cellar of the league. Stanley Frank Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury, he should join the select company of six other major leaguers who have broken past...
Only Lee J. Cobb as old Fyodor Karamazov manages to do justice to his role, and he completely steals the show. From the opening moments of the film where he is seen tickling the feet of a gypsy girl to his unforgettable scene with Father Zossima, he is nearly perfect...
...movie as a representation of the novel fails completely except for Cobb's performance. There is no Grand Inquisitor, none of the sequences from the portion of the novel called "The Boys," and the climactic trial scene contains none of the excitement and meaning which Dostoevsky was able to give it. As the movie ends, Ivan finds God; Dmitri finds Girl; cold, old Katya finds nothing; and Alexey finds that the workings of God are, as we long suspected, inscrutable...
...American public morality--which ruined Graham Greene's The Quiet American when translating it onto film--does not have the same effect on The Brothers. It is a new story, but not a bad one. All the parts of this new tale are acted better than competently--especially by Cobb and Miss Schell, and although the title would perhaps be more accurate as True Love Triumphs in Old Russia, the movie should still make good watching for escapists--that is everyone...