Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally clumsy is the film's direction, the work of Christian Marquand. Every sequence is overlong and overdone. The editing is helter-skelter, with some scenes totally incomprehensible. The color is shoddy and dank; the musical score is too loud and irrelevant. Worst of all, it is highly questionable that Marquand even bothered to direct any of his cast...
...Kuscher, president of the 11-year-old firm, said that the footnote has been included in all advertising "since a week ago." He said that the change was made as a direct result of the court action...
...tremendously underfinanced and one of the important jobs of the new director will be to acquire and direct the use of new funds," Rodwin said...
...they have entered industrial ventures with Britain's National Provincial Bank and with four Continental firms, including Baron Guy's Paris bank and Cousin Edmond's* Banque Privee in Geneva. In May, the firm assembled a syndicate that lent $15 million to Hungary, the first direct credit by Western lenders to an East bloc country. Three months ago, its U.S. affiliate bought the Georg Jensen chain of New York-area specialty shops. And next week the Rothschilds will join as a junior partner with the U.S.'s Manufacturers Hanover Trust in opening a new merchant bank...
...described as a Moby Dick complex. Allan Pinkerton and his sons William and Robert-founder and scions of a family whose name is synonymous with sleuthing-are no exceptions. Toward the criminals they pursued for twelve decades, from Jesse James to Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the Pinkertons seemed to direct the same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike...