Word: exploitatively
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...fading actress, Wendy Mackenzie as an ingenuous country girl who becomes more or less great in betrayal, and Andre Gregory, playing an author whose weakness and fine sensibilities combine to ruin lives. These three set a hard mark for the rest with thoughtful portrayals designed intelligently to develop and exploit the respective characters. Especially in Gregory's case one sees how his characterization during the early, seemingly unimportant scenes, is a well calculated build-up to his later scenes. All three deserve more than the credit normally accorded to local performers...
British producers, it seems, know how to exploit a successful character type as well as any American who ever made three or four variations on the same basic idea. The title of Alec Guinness' latest picture is The Detective but it might just as accurately be called The Man in the White Suit Rides Again. Not that the plots are any more similar than one Abbott and Costello film is to another: it is the similarity of character type that constitutes a sequel. Father Brown is remarkably like that little fellow with the quizzical smile who engineered a mint robbery...
...Image is weakest, Richard's Inside Contemporania is most impressive. The author has written an engaging satire on the idealistic stranger visiting the modern scene, which requires near-perfect execution for success. Director Harold Scott has handled it admirably. His groupings, timing, and gestures are carefully thought out to exploit the opposing strains of modern jargon and idealistic declamation in Richards script, so that its humor is correctly balanced with its more sobering import. It is to Scott's credit that not a line is lost, especially in the expertly-managed final scene...
Railroad Briefing. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, returning last week from three weeks' rest near Baden-Baden, summoned aides to his special railroad car to brief him on Moscow's proclamation, and on the situation it was designed to exploit...
...Spain's dashing ex-Matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, 29, whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled...