Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curiously disappointing film, for all its quality, much of The Ministry of Fear is as bright, sharp and cruel as a tray of surgical instruments-memorable especially for numerous props and sets which evoke the frigid metropolitan atmosphere of which Author Greene is an eloquent poet. Its main trouble is the lack of a warmly living body for the instruments to work on. The novel's hero, though over-literary and soaked with self-pity, was a corroded and conscience-torn young man to whom terrible events happened terrifyingly. The movie's hero is a competent, personable actor...
Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular...
Every mile of road had its quota of trucks stopped for repairs, with mechanics under the chassis or the hood, and frigid passengers thawing themselves by the roadside with a fire of rice stubble. Some vehicles were parked for the evening with passengers and crew sleeping underneath for shelter against the wind. Others had broken down completely. They had been stripped bare of every useful article-tires, lamps, seats, even motors. Abandoned beside them lay cargoes of bombs and ammunition, shining and useless in the biting cold...
Snap, Crackle, Pop! In Granite, Colo., Bill Lane, unable to start his frigid truck, built a fire under it, ignited the garage, exploded an oil barrel, blew the roof off the garage, injured a friend, splattered the west side of Granite with burning oil, brought out the Leadville Fire Department, burned his house down...
Liza Elliott (Ginger Rogers), the frigid, tailored editor of a fashion magazine, works so hard at her job, and at her avoidance of life, that she is near breakdown. In her waking hours Editor Elliott 1) keeps snapping at the office pest (Ray Milland) who insists on calling her Boss-Lady, 2) cannot bring herself to marry her lover (Warner Baxter) when divorce at last sets him free, 3) is attracted, to her own bewilderment, by a massively masculine cinemactor (Jon Hall). Asleep, she has spectacular dreams, complete with music. She consults a psychoanalyst (Barry Sullivan). In just four interviews...