Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast's fault that the picture fails to come through. Nor is it Ford's either, for the most part. It is primarily the Hollywood tradition of giving the customer the largest amount of fireworks in the longest possible picture (two hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) that has conspired to ruin an otherwise excellent war epic...
...fault-they all begged...
...Segovia, the plump little Caudillo told 3,000 lean Spaniards that, just by looking at them, he could see they were "really short of nourishment." He blustered: "It is the fault of outside nations which deny us many things." Franco's solution: "If we can't progress looking outward, then we'll progress looking inward...
...credit rightfully went to Gable's witty, fast-paced performance. He has managed through the years to keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join the Army...
...Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...