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Anarchy. Poland is a police state which in the past few months has lost most of its police, and the result is an increase in both freedom and anarchy. People no longer whisper in Poland, or try to convey a world of meaning with their eyes, and there are fewer darted over-the-shoulder glances before opening a conversation. But the country's production has never been lower (except in wartime), and the harvest never looked worse. Farmers accustomed to work under the eye of the U.B. (security police) are leaving much of the potato and sugar-beet crop...
...movie did, if less effectively, convey the main purpose and ideas of Steinbeck's novel. Steinbeck attempted to show the similarity of these people to their better-to-do persecutors, the similarity of involvement in the same collective struggle for the perpetuation of life. The movie does this, and ends with the hope that these people will do better in the future, as they of course did. Although Grapes of Wrath has much less value as social criticism and protest in 1956, it still is worth seeing for its successful portrayal of an heroic human drama...
Kirk Douglas is surprisingly satisfactory as Van Gogh, but there remains too much of the healthy, composed sensualist in his bearing. And he sometimes is not quite able to convey Van Gogh's frightening intensity. Anthony Quinn is excellent as Paul Gauguin, one of Van Gogh's few friends, but one-time stockbroker Gauguin was not so savage as he is shown in Lust for Life. The other acting is generally commendable, especially that of James Doland, who plays Van Gogh's brother Theo, a Paris art dealer who was the only person that thought Van Gogh a great artist...
...Eden were to be replaced, the leading contender would be the cold and talented Rab Butler, who all through the crisis managed skillfully to convey his aloofness from Eden while at the same time publicly expressing his loyalty. Privately, he let it be known he had not been consulted on many points. Publicly he exclaimed: "I have never known, under any Prime Minister I have served, the qualities of courage, integrity and flair more clearly represented than in our present Prime Minister." Commented the Economist: "Remembering, as one was meant to remember, that Mr. Butler's last Prime Minister...
...powers, especially those of Western Europe, Asia and Africa, where Russia has been conducting her peace offensive, can and must convey their anger through diplomatic channels. The Communists must be brought to realize that they cannot win friendship while using force against freedom...