Word: cuckold
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Donald Dame, as the deceived profligate Eisenstein, sang and spoke his lines with all the exaggerated melodrama which his part requires. Eisenstein is in turn a libertine, cuckold, prisoner, and judge, and Dame's versatility made each characterization convincing...
...more notable for words than action, and its pretensions to serious drama are undermined by a plot that never quite overcomes its resemblance to boudoir farce. Uriah the Hittite (Kieron Moore), whom David cheats first of his wife and then of his life, may well be the most gullible cuckold in literature; even played straight, the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy...
When the judge acquitted a woman of poisoning her husband, he got a second letter. "Will you never learn anything? Didn't it ever occur to you ... to inquire whether or not the old cuckold had actually taken out a ?200,000 insurance policy ... to be paid to the wife upon the husband's death?" The judge inquired. Sure enough, the woman had murdered her husband for the insurance...
Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...
...gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward wife...