Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beatty's life was never in danger once he entered the ambulance, doctors at McLean hospital revealed last night. They ventured that the insulating effect of his coat and jacket may have saved him from electrocution...
...singing is exploited by an interminable series of shots in which Douglas cracks various glass objects with his baritone fortissimo, and the final scene when he breaks up an opera by getting drunk on potions designed to calm him down before his entrance. This latter episode gets its effect by his drunken degradation--a type of humor that is not attractive. Finally there are several subplots to bolster the obvious inadequacies of the main story: Douglas is the proprietor of a failing wreckage business; his father-in-law had the same problem with his wife's singing...
...movie is, in effect, a series of gag situation. While this may be all right for the Marx Brothers, who work on the saturation principle, it is not all right here where the material is so thin...
President Truman stated that Lehman's victory over Dulles "will have a decided effect on the elections of 1950." His victory gave the Democrats 53 Senate seats to 43 for the Republicans. He had been actively opposed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who had also campaigned for Morris; Lehman's victory was widely interpreted last night as a vote of approval for Truman's present administration...
Between better-than-average battle seenes and grave partisan conferences, the aristocrats are shown making merry, fleeing to Switzerland, flirting with German officers, aiding the underground, and worrying about gunfire's effect on their nerves. At least this rescues them from the black-and-white situation in which the rest of the cast finds itself...