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...kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough...
...propaganda plays produced in New York since the outbreak of the war in 1939, the only one that has approached this broader implication, while still retaining a sound statement of the German menace, is Lillian Hellman's "Watch On the Rhine," and it hasn't a single Nazi...
Watch on the Rhine (TIME, April 14). Lillian Hellman's passionate anti-Nazi drama, winner of last year's Critics' Circle award...
Watch on the Rhine. Lillian Hellman's potent anti-Nazi drama, which won the Critics' Circle award last year...
This picture is one of Hollywood's better jobs, but its plot is not the reason. The real heroes of the production are Cameraman Gregg Toland, who recreates his subtle photographic touches of "Citizen Kane," and Patricia Collinge, who, as the garrulous and persecuted Birdie, gives to Miss Hellman's only real character-study, the same spirited portrayal that made it live on the stage. Always the artist, Mr. Toland makes brilliant use of the shadow and heightens the power of the climactic staircase scenes by shooting from unique angles...