Word: ghoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls, but his roles as a troubled insecure youth prompted many young movie fans to identify with...
Robinson, as the detective, is dutifully inhuman throughout. The relish with which he shows movies of the Nazi gas chambers would delight any red-blooded ghoul, and his poker-face in delivering such lines as "You're shocked at my cold-bloodedness" is, for some inexplicable reason, hilarious. Welles is suitably desperate as the Nazi, even though he fails to exhibit any quality which could conceivably have inspired his wife's animal-like devotion to him. Loretta Young plays the animal...
...attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black Castle tries hard to chill the moviegoer's spine. Most of the time, however, this boy-meets-ghoul melodrama is only tepid theatrics...
Christ's crown of thorns marks the mathematical center of the composition, but not the spiritual center. Lebrun has chosen to hide Christ's face entirely and to put above His bowed head the face of an anonymous ghoul, a monster that seems to set the overall tone...
...converted his tough sergeant to Shakespeare and occasionally awed him, when he gave what Fry considered unreasonable orders, with a geyser of Falstaffian curses. After war's end, his Phoenix ran for 64 performances in London's West End. Wrote one critic: "Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh ... He gets more cheerfulness out of coffins than most people would from the abolition of bread rationing...