Word: grimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...
...French don't seem to worry about the superficial aesthetics of their pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle-fed on the soothing cream of Hollywood...
...dreary epic of old-age and the theatre, is one of the grim and gory type,--and also really good. Michel Simon, sans his "Port of Shadows" barbe, turns in a superb performance. He screams and slobbers through the plot with remarkable gusto. The contrast of these two of his latest parts is really astonishing. As a sop to the earthy aesthetics of the masses, there is also a quite delectable blonde named Maleleine Ozeray who plays a quite unorthodox feminine lead to an antiquated lecher of the stage played by Louis Jouvet. The cast, as a whole, really carries...
...Five grim and nervous Sophomore managers will frantically rush about doing their last and their best as the "zero hour" approaches. In the midst of the general breaking of training in the locker room after the game, they will doggedly stick to their jobs, for now more than ever their work is the most important thing...
...long deep trip through the jungle Mrs. Keith, only woman along, had a grim time of it, sitting in boats with her buttocks continuously wet, trying not to lag in the slimy trudging, tattered by leeches and insects, dozing through the drowned nights squatted in bed in a safari tent beneath a blue cotton umbrella while her unconquerable husband slept like...