Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bordello. Unlike the forthright realism of his "Shoeshine," however De Siea's treatment here is often contrived. At one point the boy falls into a puddle while running after his father, an incident which seems injected for the sole purpose of proving the film's spontaneity of detail. The photography is consistently fine, but at times it also appears too forced for true dramatic impact...
This is a distorted summary, distorted in that it tries to bring some order to a deliberately disordered book. Hawkes likes to play with reality, to juggle his characters through time and space, to withhold important information and stress irrelevant detail. But most of all, he likes cold, sharp, frightening imagery...
...Fritz Bultman, 30, confined himself largely to black, white and grey arrangements of what looked like moldy bones. According to the catalogue foreword, his pictures were not really abstract: "Rather they are religious, or moral, bereft of realistic pictorial detail for the same reason philosophy is shorn of particular verbal description of the life whose meaning it explores...
...leisurely opening scene, his entrance is a refreshing one; the play seems to change its caliber immediately. In him, the play wright's command of limpid, precise prose is very powerful. And more, the Canon is a rounded character whose pomposity and reverence of classicism are explored in skillful detail. This character receives full understanding and appreciation in the hands of Thayer David. David gives a performance which is remarkable for its restraint and technical perfection. And Julie Haydon, the guest star, brings to her role of Brigid not only her appropriately chaste beauty, but a quiet and winning style...
...Director Robert (The Killers') Siodmak builds tension in some of the courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the jury's verdict. But taut detail is not enough to prop up the essential fudge-and-marshmallow of character and concept...