Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raintree County is just another movie, only longer. Not even a Boston premiere featuring a slinky starlet and a brass band can disguise the sad truth that this film is almost completely devoid of either sense or dramatic impact. The characters and the events that happen to them just are not interesting enough to justify the three and a half hours it takes this thing to grind to a weary...
...college girlfriend, Eva Marie Saint fills what is essentially a small and not overly interesting character with an agreeable kind of sweetness and light. And Elizabeth Taylor is still the most beautiful film actress today, despite the alarming evidence of a double chin. It takes little charity to forgive her occasional deficiencies as an actress...
...most engaging performance in the film is contributed by the British actor Nigel Patrick. He plays the part of a dishonest college professor in the best English grand manner and delivers his silly lines with appropriate disdain...
...Committee published a textbook this summer and is experimenting with the new course this fall. In addition to the text--which has proven quite successful--the group is working to simplify classroom experiments and build up a supplementary film library. To provide extra reading matter for the exceptional physics student who now has virtually none available at his level, the Committee is beginning a one hundred and fifty volume paperback series...
...characters in this film were not fictitious--it would be alarming," states the epilogue to another Boulting Brothers British comedy currently on Exeter St., Brothers in Law. Perhaps, but the legal world would be more interesting...