Word: cobwebbed
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...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...
...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...
...Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...good deal of the trouble in The Cobweb is readymade, since the setting is a Midwest psychiatric sanitarium called the Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders. But Head Psychoanalyst Stewart McIver, his wife and his staff spin some extra strands of personal disaster that make the patients seem sane and well adjusted...
Though it sometimes slows to a lecture-room pace, The Cobweb shows a nice ear for the spoken word and a good eye for the physical props of upper-middle-class life. Even its mixed-up characters might be fun to be with, if each did not so persistently regard his own navel as the hub of the universe...