Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
...than-ordinary comic ideas, but they never quite come off. A multimillionaire (Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture: the husband becomes a national hero among men, a national monster among women...
...Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner looked evil but sang with only moderate control and acted rather clumsily. The one big disappointment of the day was Joseph Laderoute, who was weak and unimpressive as Idomeneo...
...late Harry Baur's performance as Volpone-at once lovable and evil, silly and profound-is a vaudeville masterpiece...
Beauty & the Beast (Paulvé; Lopert), the innocent old fairy tale written in 1757 by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, seems to many surrealists to state the problem of good & evil in its "real" terms, i.e., as a sexual, male-female equation, with symbols of profane and sacred love. Poet-Playwright-Producer Jean Cocteau, a part-time surrealist, has now transformed the tale into a film that is a wondrous spectacle for children of any language, and quite a treat for their parents...