Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons of all political complexions, tensely watching the grim news from Russia, read a London Evening Standard editorial that put their hopes into plangent words. Author was the Standard's crusading young Editor Michael Foot, 27, whose book, Guilty Men, caused an uproar in Britain just after Dunkirk. Excerpts...
...would be somewhat difficult, since he is the whole show himself. Appearing in nearly every scene, and dominating every other character in the story, Ladd neatly pulls a weak and often aimless story up by his own bootstraps into the realm of first-rate escapist filmfare. As Raven, the grim and psychopathic gunman who doesn't even bother to blink when he polishes off his daily quota of victims, he glides easily through a part that in other hands might well have degenerated into another "boy-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks" role...
Like all men who know what they are talking about, Kohn says emphatically that at present we are losing the war, but he feels that what we need is neither optimism nor pessimism but a grim determination. From one who has spent the greater part of his life studying the history and workings of nationalism comes the somewhat surprising statement that militarism and aggression are not at all inherent in the German people. Kohn feels that our greatest mistake in 1918 was the failure of the Allies to destroy forever the prestige of the German militarists. If this time every...
...bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...
...gruesome. Adam named Ivan after the great landscape painter, Claude Lorraine, twin Malvin Marr after Carl Marr. Brother Lisle Murillo went into business, but Ivan and Malvin, used as models for the senior Albright's sentimental pictures of childhood, reacted by staying with art in a grim...