Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Susan Harrison, a "find" when the film was first made, who has since enjoyed an undistinguished career, is adequately pathetic as Suzy. Driven from the happiness of her first love to attempted suicide by her brother ("I'd rather be dead than live with you"), Suzy is inextricably caught in the web of corruption, and it is a wonder that she comes out of it all alive...
Ruts 2 & 11. In Baltimore, the TV section of the Sun listed, for the same hour on the same night on different channels: "The Texan (Bill Langley is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With Rory Calhoun. Film.)" and "Restless Gun (Vint Bonner is pursued for a crime committed by an outlaw who resembles him. With John Payne. Film...
...rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school at twelve, Pamela talked herself into a London movie career, had made her third film when she was married at 16 to Director Roy Kellino (then a cameraman). Later Actor Mason moved in with the Kellinos as a house guest, stayed to say goodbye to Kellino and became Pamela's second husband. For 18 years, he has been listening...
...story, as the film tells it, is a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre. The hero (Yul Brynner) is a gloomy and passionate young man. The heroine (Joanne Woodward) is his ward, a gay young sprig on a rotten family tree. The Compsons have been drunk for a couple of generations, and have long since sold their birthright for a mess of corn liquor. The only thing left is the peeling old plantation house, and there the last of the Compsons live on the charity of the hero, who has become a Compson by adoption and is determined to redeem...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...