Word: cobwebbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-school senior at Professional Children's School, Susie stands 5 ft., weighs 96 Ibs. No theatrical novice, she began her career at 14 in an off-Broadway production. She played Juliet on TV when she was only 15, and has already appeared in two movies, The Cobweb and the forthcoming Picnic. Though she was swamped with movie offers after opening night, she will not do another one until next summer...
...confirmed by two twelve-year-old boys who had seen strange men carrying heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...
...Cobweb (MGM) shows how a well-run psychiatric clinic turns into a bedlam simply because good, greying Dr. Richard Widmark is indifferent to his pouting wife, Gloria Grahame. The fireworks start over a set of new draperies for the patients library. Gloria, embarked on a rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies...
Though failing in its overall effect, Cobweb has in its favor some sharply etched scenes, e.g., the dramatic clash of wills between Patient Kerr and Dr. Widmark during an analytic session. Veteran Lillian Gish, as a wig-wearing termagant determined to be on the winning side in any quarrel, gives the most stylish performance in the film...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...