Word: creaking
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...silent-except that Anthony Perkins, who plays an amateur taxidermist, is sickeningly involved, and that a blow is dealt to mother love from which that sentiment may not recover. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror...
...still unpublished book of memoirs. Report to El Greco, Greece's late great man of letters, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: "All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind." Readers of this strange little book of aphorisms, which Kazantzakis finished in 1923 before he wrote such works as Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel, will sense the greatness of the writer...
Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult...
Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult...
...furniture is set in place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall, Eric Portman-playing Rochester in the manner of a wholly masculine Tallulah Bankhead-wards off collapse. But Jan Brooks is never Jane. Adapter Hartford's hand is never skilled, and things more and more creak till what goes up, quite melodramatically in smoke, is not so much Thornfield Hall as a mass of theatrical deadwood...