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Everybody in the picture who disapproves of homosexuals proves to be an ass, a dolt or a sadist. Nowhere does the film suggest that homosexuality is a serious (but often curable) neurosis that attacks the biological basis of life itself. "I can't help the way I am," says one of the sodomites in this movie. "Nature played me a dirty trick." And the scriptwriters, whose psychiatric information is clearly coeval with the statute they dispute, accept this sick-silly self-delusion as a medical fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Plea for Perversion? | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...Midianites. The Angel of the Lord (Fredric March) appears before Gideon (Douglas Campbell) and hails him as a "mighty man of valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Proper God | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...here, if indeed they are men at all, stopped letting the girls over at Radcliffe push them around. Every Saturday night 1100 Cliffies in search of respectable entertainment herd a similar number of Harvardian sheep into Boston. Most of them attend movies, but the simple fact that the poor dolt had to trek into Boston with his date seems to compensate for the vulgarity of mere flicking...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Let Them Eat Popcorn | 8/11/1960 | See Source »

...here, if indeed they are men at all, stopped letting the girls over at Radcliffe push them around. Every Saturday night 1100 Cliffies in search of respectable entertainment herd a similar number of Harvardian sheep into Boston. Most of them attend movies, but the simple fact that the poor dolt had to trek into Boston with his date seems to compensate for the vulgarity of mere flicking...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Let Them Eat Popcorn | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

Lady Chatterly's lover, the chauffeur, is played by a handsome dolt who may be trying to be funny...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: A Novel Affair | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

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