Word: hokeyness
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...quickly: three weeks of rehearsal, eight weeks of shooting. Occasionally the rush shows, in a composition that is a little too static or in a microphone shadow against a wall. Overall, though, Frankenheimer's production is careful and vigorous. Harry Hope's bar looks dingy but never hokey. The photography keeps the backgrounds in as sharp perspective as possible, letting each viewer select his own point of focus. In that respect, this Iceman resembles the style of Orson Welles' banquet scene in Citizen Kane, in which each face was vivid at a long table. The technique creates...
...Arthur Feinsod's patient direction. Feinsod has allowed certain adaptations to develop during rehearsal -- like Mueller's entertaining monologues as she tries to persuade her friends to renew their subscription to The Homemaker's Companion. He has honed away various lighting cues of the original script that might seem hokey today. What is left is a memory as transient as the match that Tom strikes to light a cigarette before each scene; the match flares, then the set lights go up. For those who can still enjoy a sentimental evening, this is Tennessee Williams at its best...
Benton's directorial debut, Bad Company is very much in the same hokey picaresque tradition as Bonnie and Clyde and There Was a Crooked Man, for which Benton and Newman contributed characteristically jaunty scripts...
...presently causing so much friction between labor and management, about the way a pro hockey team functions internally over the course of a season, about the contrast between aging veteran and brash rookie. But he prevents himself from covering any of these in depth by saddling himself with the hokey Love Story angle...
...Hartke (below) courting the readers with love letters in 72-point boldface lead type? Was this just some good-ol'-down-on-the-farm-Hoosier-friendly-neighbor gesture or was Hartke actually trying to woo votes with this, shall we say, rather hokey amorous ploy? Did he actually think he had any chance of winning...