Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speedy Crimson line made many prolonged forays into Williams territory, but a mistake on offense or a sparkling Eph defensive play put an end to every threat. Hampered by inaccurate passing, the varsity's attack showed the same fault that has characterized it all season--the lack of a real scoring punch...
Seldom does the movie overwork a scene. It lingers over each stiuation just long enough to make its point, then hurries on to the next. Things happen fast: brawls and arguments occur quickly enough to seem truly brutal. The only fault of the movie lies in its curious lack of proportion in handling its love scenes. The focus on Harvey's affair is so weighty that there is a tendency to watch it for its own sake and not as an integral part of the story. Drawn out and over-explicit, it presents a misleading picture of the affair, making...
...unfortunate Proctor, Yves Montand suffers and grimaces with commendable vigor, but he never manages to convey the internal conflict that threatens to destroy him. Perhaps this is not his fault, for Sartre has created a John Proctor who is more of a symbol than a tragic hero. At any rate, acting laurels must go to Simone Signoret, who plays Proctor's wife with a combination of puritan pigheadedness and feminine warmth that makes her the only completely convincing character in the film. Director Rouleau's portrayal of Deputy Governor Danforth, the prosecutor, is so blunt that even in his moments...
...fault is to be found with this showing, one must regret that Pier Luigi Nervi, Italy's great engineer-architect, was not included in the show. His accomplishments are surely more significant than those of Wallace K. Harrison, who exhibits buildings for Alcoa that seem to have been designed for the sole purpose of discovering uglier and uglier ways of using aluminum. If Harrison's experiments turned out to be disastrous failures, those brave new forms at Ronchamp and Bear Run resulted in magnificent accomplishments. It is achievements such as these which have given our century the most exciting buildings...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie Dunn, who begins as a romantic ingenue and becomes one of the quietly scary, hard-as-nails young women only Shaw could create, is played well enough by Diane Cilento...