Word: downrightness
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...Director John Huston makes their melodramatic activities as immediate as a shot in a dark room. His characters keep close to Hammett's originals, who in turn are so close to real life that what is constantly about to happen to them (and often does) becomes at times downright unbearable...
...came, we stood, (you'll have to wait weeks to get seats), and it conquered. It doesn't happen very often--"Life with Father" is the closest to it we've seen since we got the play-going habit--but when it does it's downright faith-renewing. What we're trying to stop laughing long enough to tell you is that That Play with the two nice little murderous ladies in it has finally found its way to Boston and if you haven't got a strong heart all the dying won't be done of the stage...
This bit of tomfoolery manages to be engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...
...people over the heads of Vichy, gave them the somewhat belated warning that if Vichy assisted in Germany's war, Britain-would feel free to attack the Unoccupied as well as the Occupied Zone. But it seemed likely that Frenchmen in general would have been disgusted, if not downright nauseated, by any large appeal, British or French...
This is not only untrue and unjust. It is downright insulting to thousands of women who are working from necessity, not from choice...