Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he is set to mastermind the election for governor of a drunken windbag named John Cromwell, Freesmith has developed into a full clinical picture of an icy-hearted opportunist in action. He figures that fear plus hate equals power. By manipulating the fear of poverty of California's "senior citizens" and exploiting general hatred of Communism, he hopes to become the real governor of California. In a not quite credible solution, his pal Hank removes the hard hand of Mike Freesmith from the public weal...
...hero is an illiterate, crafty boy of 16 whose talents are chiefly sexual, whose amorality would excite the envy of an alley cat. Yet he vaguely wants to better himself, and knows he can never do it in his Texas home town, where his father cleans cesspools and spouts drunken fundamentalism from the courthouse steps. So Dove Linkhorn rides the rods, just as Algren himself did during the Depression, and before long he winds up in New Orleans. Almost immediately he is caught up in a surrealist country of thieves, grifters, pimps and prostitutes. Here he thrives as naturally...
Presumably, the age limit is intended to prevent activities offensive or dangerous to the public from taking place, in public, and to preserve the health of the young-both perfectly good intentions. It would be well to consider, however, that drunken driving endangers America's youth more than delirium tremens. Authorities, therefore, should crack down hard, not on drinking so much as on drunkenness, especially when driving. Fines for driving while intoxicated could be increased, or operator's license could be revoked frequently...
...small village. The picture is a one-man show, made up of a series of episodes held together by little more than its comedian's abilities. He uses almost no dialogue for his effects, but in such scenes as an epic battle with tottering flag pole, and a drunken wrestling match between the postman and his bicycle, no words are necessary...
...stuff of spectacle is indeed all here, and Director Rossen has marshaled it with care and passion against the stern Spanish landscape. His best scenes have the faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...