Word: gorkian
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...when the film gets away from its cozy palship with God, it generates a Gorkian power in chronicling the rise and fall and rise again of a grade-A juvenile delinquent from Manhattan's Lower East Side. It also gives a merited big chance to Actor Paul Newman, 31. who seemed doomed to walk forever in the shadow of Marlon Brando. Newman is still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does...
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