Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
Robert struggles desperately and articulately against his love for Sylvia, fighting his own Leftist Conscience. Over a couple of decades, Robert and Sylvia keep running into each other all over seething Europe. They make love, part, meet again and swap Miss Hellman's acid-etched lines while Jews are being slugged on Berlin's streets (1928), while fascist bombs are crashing on Madrid (1936), while Paris diplomats are cooking up the Munich deal...
...young newcomer named Douglas Dick. He gives a memorable, hackle-raising performance as the son who eventually loses a leg in a war his diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...