Word: fancifulism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As he started to speak, Thompson and Jones waited anxiously, for sometimes the nearsighted Dromgoole seemed to be straying wildly from his notes. For long stretches at a time, he would blurt out fanciful ad libs ("I thought he would never stop," says Thompson). And then there was that terrible...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn plants itself in a plot of swampland--Betty Smith's tearfully sentimental novel. And despite its fanciful ballets, splashing sets, and a few bright tunes, the watery plot and croaky-throated principals make certain that this tree never blooms.
Big Jim McLain (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) starts off with a documentary sequence of the House Un-American Activities Committee in session in Washington, D.C. From there, the picture goes on to some wildly fanciful movie melodrama. Big Jim McLain (John Wayne) and his partner (James Arness) are committee investigators assigned...
The Winning Team (Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and...
Though played on a larger stage, High Treason is not quite so dynamic as Seven Days to Noon. The screenplay sometimes bogs down in low melodrama, and the pace lags now & then for wordy political digressions. But in Boulting's camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo...