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Word: genne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moby Dick. Captain Ahab superbly harrows the oceans in his search for the great white whale; with Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

With the egregious exception of Peck, the acting is very good indeed. Richard Basehart gives Ishmael the appropriate detached air, and Leo Genn correctly looks torns between two duties as Starbuck, a sort of former-day Caine Mutineer. Friedrich Ledebur, as Queeqeug, is probably as good an authority as anyone on how a cannibal should act. And, oh yes!--the whale is great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moby Dick | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...bewildered yet sympathetic husband of a few days, Mark Stevens is less successful. In the role of the concerned but helpless bystander, he is barely convincing. Although Stevens is a trifle too All-American and anxious, his voice as narrator in some flashback scenes is far more pleasing. Leo Genn is appropriately noble as the young healer who must fight his boss over methods for Miss de Havilland's cure. He is strong, intelligent, calm, and quite impressive...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Snake Pit | 12/6/1955 | See Source »

...sketchy investigations that create almost as much mystery as they resolve, he produces, in a clever courtroom scene, the full portrait of the crime, including the face of the killer. Actor Redgrave is the making of the show, though at times he almost fidgets it away. Kieron Moore, Leo Genn and Jane Henderson are excellent. It's a nice little puzzler, in a squirrely sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Imports | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Personal Affair (Rank; United Artists) is a British attempt to say "Boo!" without losing dignity. A student (Glynis Johns) at an English school for young ladies has a crush on one of her teachers (Leo Genn). The teacher's wife (Gene Tierney) senses the truth, imagines a lot more, and warns the girl off. That night the girl disappears without a trace. Is she dead? If so, by her own hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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