Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
Besmocked, and mounted upon his ladders, he remains in his studio most of the day. Beyond a few intruders ("Mothers and children," he mutters with disgust), nothing worries him-not even his age. Surrounded by his ghost-white figures, Carl Milles says serenely: "I don't believe in death...
...science scratches below the surface of the physical universe, it turns up more & more mysterious matters. A very small ghost, much smaller than an electron, now haunts modern physics. Its name, for want of something better, is the "neutrino." No one has ever seen a neutrino, or any trace which one has left behind it, but physicists are pretty certain that neutrinos are real. Just possibly, they may be the most important things in the physical universe...
...within his chosen limits, Olivier and his associates have done excellently-from grandiose poetic conceptions (e.g., the frightfully amplified heartbeats which introduce the Ghost) to clever little captures of mood (e.g., the cold, discreet clapping of gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition...
...have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble looking old enough to be the beauteous Majesty of Denmark. But her performance is a profoundly exciting job of tragedy in the grand manner...