Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...
...except in the U.S., where the film played only in San Francisco's Vogue Theater. For almost two years the managers of Manhattan's 36 art theaters disdainfully refused the screen space to "that sacred cow opera, the kind of picture the critics love and the customers hate" (TIME, Feb. 17). But when Pather Panchali opened recently in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Cinema, it smashed the house attendance record set by Gervaise, and the distributor now reports that dozens of exhibitors are begging for prints...
...confirmed a dream addict as any tosspot or down-and-outer in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody stands apart from them in having a family around him-a lowborn wife who has never ceased to love him, a high-mettled daughter increasingly roused to hate. In the costly game of lies-and-consequences, Con is less like any one in O'Neill than like O'Casey's Paycock. The consequences are not the same: where at last the Paycock lies sodden among a ruined family, Con, among a rising one, is both...
...Visit brings the Lunts back to Broadway in an existentialist fable of a woman's vengeful hate and a whole community's greed...
...Defiant Ones is yet another example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate one another as only a poor white and a down-trodden negro can; but they must co-operate in even the simplest act of daily life...