Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show was the idea of President Stanton, and its content took added weight from his role as one of the shapers of the open-secret Gaither Report. To strike the "complete balance sheet" that Stanton ordered, the network news staff labored for three months over documents, interviews and film...
Mildred Dunnock gives the film's best performance in a small role as the old maid schoolteacher without whom no small town is complete. But there is much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...
...film has a few effective moments, but its chief charm is its scenery. When that palls, there are stretches during which Peyton Place seems like a thoroughly dull little town...
After conscientiously mulling over 1957's output of movies, the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise...
...Adulteress (Hakim; Times Film) sounds as if it might be pornographic. It is based on Emile Zola's early novel, Thérèse Raquin, a somber slice of life that was called pornographic as soon as it came out. Neither book nor movie is. Written with Naturalist Zola's unfailing passion for the sordid underside of reality, the book showed how illicit love led to murder, how murder turned love to hate, how hate led to plots of new murders, and how a couple of suicides ended the whole bloody business. The movie plucks the story...