Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magnificent, presented by the Bell Telephone System on CBS, was a costly monument to the low opinion that some broadcasters hold of the U.S. viewer's intelligence. Written and directed by Frank Capra as the second in a special science series (the first: Our Mr. Sun), the film told the story of the blood and how it gets around. It was doubly condescending in assuming that 1) viewers must be approached at the grade-school level to woo their interest in science, and 2) the circulatory system is so intrinsically dull that it takes the act of Capra...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME. March...
...novel Lady Chatterley's Lover has caused a considerable amount of excitement ever since its publication in 1928, but the French motion picture based on the book is not likely to arouse much discussion. Despite the Beacon Hill's prominent "Adults Only" signs, there is little in the film which might corrupt youths. To be sure, a discussion of what might be called the metaphysics of sexuality forms the core of the picture, buit it is treated with such careful circumspection that the result is little more than dull...
Whatever it may have meant in the original novel, the film presents the story as a routine marital triangle, albeit one clothed in some impressive pastoral photography. Part of the picture's lack of dramatic impact undoubtedly stems from the routine character of the acting. Only one of the principals, Danielle Darrieux, as Lady Chatterley, brings some life into the proceedings. Her transition from a cool, self-possessed society woman to the wife of a gamekeeper is, on the whole, credible. Leo Genn, in the part of Sir Clifford, gives a singularly plodding performance and his French always sounds self...
Because the nun must maintain her faith and above all her chastity, and the Marine, relinquish his love for her, pure or normal as it is, the film's value is reduced to a light, often humorous level. Drama gives way to scenes of Platonic tenderness and dedication between the two. These are sensitively enough handled so that while Sister Anglea undergoes only brief moments of temptation and inner turmoil, and Mr. Allison takes his fate quickly in stride, this story of a Marine and a nun on a lush Pacific island is a first-rate fairy-tale...