Word: facials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those with counterfeit singing voices, Dorothy Tutin is the lone disappointment. Playing an ingenue her exaggerated facial contortions and adolescent soliloquies lack the subtlety that punctuates the other performances...
Director Peter brook's color camera prowls quietly through each scene emphasizing details that bring realism to the film. Concentrating on facial expressions, his close-ups and angle shots are typical of his bet work...
...steady stream of undisguised hints wash away any trace of suspense. Against a background of urban England, Oliver, as Edward Bare, plays a limey opportunist who, for a chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a second. A sharp voice for his uneducated but shrewd conceit, the facial expressions which change with the varying moods of flattery and hate, and the complete lack of human warmth all combine to make Bare a wonderful villain. It is this performance which is primarily responsible for keeping the play moving, for he is on the stage almost all the time...
Jean Lunn brought a clear, wide-ranged voice to the role of the soprano. Her vivid facial expressions and fine sense of timing made her performance thoroughly upstanding, even when she wasn't standing...
...young man in mill-dotted Lawrence (pop. 80,536), Mass., Peter Akulonis had trouble with the police. He was a poor boy. He was deaf in one ear, and a facial paralysis had twisted his mouth. He rebelled against the world by feats of petty crime-once he hung by his fingertips from a third-story roof for ten minutes trying to escape the cops. But back in the 1930s he reformed, got married, grew silent and almost martyr-like in his resolve to lead the humble, uncomplaining life. Peter Akulonis never smiled, but he was good-year after year...