Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite an overly cute central idea and the flim-flamboyance of Star Susan Hayward, competent script and direction make this a pleasant political coimdy about the road from bawdyhouse to Governor's mansion. Britain's Wilfrid Hyde White is superb as a major political snake...
Like Tweet (Columbia). The idea is cute and corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee. "I suddenly realized,'' writes Jazzman Eddie Hall, "that birds blow the greatest riffs ever created." The band has an airy bounce, and the wonder of it all is that a few birds, notably the Baltimore oriole, come out of it almost as well as they went...
...thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments, to be cute, and they are too seriously worried about the very danger of self-love to be true egotists...
...picture cannot always pass a close inspection. The boy's character is often unclear, the screenplay sometimes cluttered, the dialogue occasionally cute. But Author James Warner Bellah, who has written hundreds of horse operas for both slicks and pulps, wrote this one with historical knowledge and literary care. Director Joseph (Outcasts of Poker Flat) Newman obviously inspired his actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not overly cute story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's His tory of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...