Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relaxing Part. At 33, Koerner is a neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...
What worries Kelemen more than Mindszenty's guilt is the fear that the Communists will take his land and make it part of a kolkhoz (collective farm). He is not sure what a kolkhoz is, but, he said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take...
...story of a pretty Ph.D. (Loretta Young) who commits a murder in self-defense, and then almost falls in love with the detective (Wendell Corey) who is trying to pin the crime on her. The fact that Loretta is a professor of psychology, and thus knows about guilt complexes, does not make her terrified attempts at concealment any easier...
...plot-essentially a fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...