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Quipped a gleeful Roman: "All De Gaulle is divided into three parts...
...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...
...rest of the cast, though not up to a Broadway level, was often as not up to Actress Rainer. But they could not do justice to Shaw's play, which, for all its cracks at the English and gleeful satire against the Church, is one of the most serious that Shaw ever wrote. It holds up well, though it will never put its best foot forward until producers are allowed to do to Shaw what they do to Shakespeare: cut him drastically...
...equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
...swindled his partner out of $15,000 to oblige her with a trip around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good-by and nuts to him in a telegram which makes Harry Bogen's most inspired malice sound like baby talk...