Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of almost anything, but this is just too much to take. Then, in the agonizingly protracted struggle between timbermen and believers, Douglas goes gooey and joins the Druids (who have given up their ethical principles and taken up arson...
Notwithstanding the overzealous efforts of the female co-stars, Van does surprisingly well. His performance as a weak Long Island social climber, which fortunately requires no difficult facial expressions, is excellent. He sustains a convincing dapper-heel effect, which is his bonanza, until the traditionally gooey ending...
Besides a large number of gooey lines like this, Bright Victory also contains a love story and a sermon against prejudice. Then, of course, there is the "heart-throbbing" music--in case one doesn't realize that it's time...
...into prophetic genius-is still a neat trick, and the new movie has some fun with it. But Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
Next day there was a thaw, gooey mud and another sharp fight for ancient, ruined Suwon. After a go-minute battle, the Chinese were driven out and the town pronounced "secure." Suwon itself was not an important objective; the Americans just wanted to deny it to the enemy as a staging base...