Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harrowed by dark memories, Vail Trahern (Alexander Knox) can still, after a quieting talk with his wife (Doris Nolan), agree to go to a sanitarium for treatment. Then, thrown off balance again, he runs off, has somebody else turn up at the sanitarium in his name, and steals back home to precipitate a ghastly mess...
...halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...
...ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines, suntan and infrared lamps . . . What do you think...
...Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...
Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion...