Word: dirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings are mostly small and glossy, done on panels and crammed with miniature details. The great Flemish artists who produced them-Memling, Dirk Bouts, Roger van der Weyden and the brothers Van Eyk-held a reducing glass up to nature, painted serenely sweet and ordered little worlds. No master before or since has surpassed them in that, but more passionate artists are apt to find them too phlegmatic, and to prefer the thornier works of Hieronymus Bosch, who also lived within Burgundy's bounds...
Murray is the big gun in the shot putting department. His beat was 48 feet, 4 1/4 inches against Rhode Island, just 4 1/4 inches over the best varsity mark. McCurdy is willing to bet the will better 50 by June. Dirk Walecka is good for 42 feet, 8 inches...
Later he shouted: "I am not here to red-bait. I'm not here to witch-hunt. I'm not here to smear innocent persons." Who, then, was he there to smear? Dorgan was evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...
Even the underworld, or at least its old guard, gets sympathetic treatment from The Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well...
Furthermore, the acting is not up to the usual English standards. Jimmy Hanley plays the rookie with a completely blank expression. Dirk Bogarde portrays the mean and always-villainous killer with a similar lack of imagination. Jack warner acts the old Bobby very well; it was too bad he had to be the corpse...