Word: gabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more modern illusion lies bloody in the dust. Oh, joy, hear the cannibals gibber! To paraphrase: Jean Gabin has made, not a mediocre picture, not a bad one, but one that is simply stinking, divinely so, my dear...
Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
...rumble of railroad trains and the feverish knock of a mad brain: this is the not exactly gleeful melody of "The Human Beast". Jean Gabin is the uncouth locomotive driver whose blood is polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders...
...Human Beast (Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Ledoux; TIME, March...