Word: dialect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only other good performance besides Hull, is given by Richard Waring. But he is miscast. His English-trained voice is unable to grapple with American dialect and he gives the impression of a frustrated Shakespearean player...
More important, Albotell has not been able to teach his characters to speak their Ozark dialect with Ozark accents. Perhaps most of the blame lies with the lines which just don't belong in hillbilly mouths...
...Neill brought his brooding, unflinching sense of the dark mass of things, but not the art - or even the articulateness-to give it genuine shape. Desire emerges as neither realistic drama nor poetic tragedy, but as something clumsily in between. Most of the writing, in a rather stylized dialect as factitious as it is folksy, lacks reverberation. Hence, too much of the action has the quality of mere clodhopper melodrama. The last act is dramatically effective; but the last act, reaching up to the redemptive power of love, should be tragically exalted...
Professionally, the other Marx Brothers haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...