Word: escapists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot conceive of any reason for the attitude this picture has taken. The movie industry as a whole has been a burden on the war effort. It has failed to turn out good propaganda, for one thing, and to round out a picture of inefficiency, its escapist fare has been extraordinarily bad. When one looks around at the Russian, German, and British film industries, laboring under worse handicaps and turning out consistently more effective stuff than the "great" American movie magnates, one wonders where Hollywood gets the gall to bare a back tattooed "Pat Here" to the American pubic...
...this might well have made Grandpa Longstreet a character to end all recollections of the Diamond Jim Brady-Stanford White-Harry K. Thaw-Anna Held era. But Nine Lives with Grandfather is not that good a book. At best, it is readable, escapist nonfiction, often amusing but seldom really funny. At worst, it is merely the sixth book in two years by 33-year-old Stephen Longstreet, a prolific writer who also operates under at least four pseudonyms and who draws almost as facilely as he writes...
...brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...Devil or not? Requirement for the entering class into Hell is a thoroughly abominable life, and Ameche telling of his past villainy to numberless females seems to qualify. The women in his life, beginning with Victorian plush-and-tessels Technicolor scenics occupy the major portion of this escapist film. But unfortunately enough, Ameche's caddishness, elopements, and double dealings aren't enough. This comedy is good for chuckies, and makes hell thoroughly attractive. The film has a good supporting cast, and rambles on pleasantly despite some dull moments. Recommended if you have nothing more important...
...couple's son and imminently expectant daughter-in-law arrive to turn it into a delivery room. Another set of prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...