Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera work are fine. The film's only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
...perhaps the principal moral theme is the story of Miss Bacall. The Puritanical bent, the Horatio Alger ambition of these three women is given a philosophic basis in Miss Bacall's history. The denouement of her experience can only be classified as Calvinistic: despite all our efforts, we can only obtain Paradise through Grace...
...shoot-em-up fans have their day at the Brattle, where one of the finest French gangster flicks of all time is now showing. Razzia leaves nothing to be desired. The mystery which runs through the entire film does not reach its denouement until the very end, and there is enough violence to last all but the most sadistic for several weeks. Again Gabin is masterful, although he leaves the shooting to several excellently portrayed gangster types who expires at the film's end in a burst of machine gun fire...
...biannual autumnal electioneering exhibition draws nearer its November denouement, both parties find accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that the Democratic Party was responsible for the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill...
Then Mama Kerr said to Papa Kerr, or maybe it was Papa Kerr who said to Mama Kerr, "What shall we do about character development, consistency, originality, and a believable denouement...