Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Sir Laurence Olivier star in G. B. Shaw's Devil's Disciple...
...viewer keeps hoping that Messenger is another of Director John Huston's deadpan spoofs, like Beat the Devil; but it turns out to be only a tribute to the art of Makeup Man Bud Westmore. After the killer has been hooked and The End comes on the screen, a voice shouts: "Hold it! Stop! That's the end of the picture-but it's not the end of the mystery." And for what seems like ten minutes of the most crashing anticlimax to ever climax an anticlimax, the incognito cameo players peel off their makeup. Shucks, with...
...ancient one: How to account for the evil in man if God is both all powerful and good? And like many another modern soul seared by a too-strong vision of atomic doom, he turns back to the heretical judgment of the medieval Manichees: God and the Devil are at best an equal match...
...whiz! Golly I Gosh! The deuce! The Devil! 0 hell! Hang...
...scandalizing Catholics or boring those outside the Catholic faith. Pope Kiril is no bore and is perhaps the first fictional pontiff to pass the severe test the subject imposes on the fallibility of novelists.*West's novel can be read as exciting fiction by a notable craftsman (The Devil's Advocate) and for the documentary expertise West acquired as Vatican correspondent for the London Daily Mail, not to speak of his years as a postulant of the Christian Brothers teaching order in his native Australia...