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...Incest of the Soul. If August Strindberg had lived in the heyday of Freud, he would probably have been locked up as a paranoiac or reduced to the status of a dull neurotic. Since he died unpsychoanalyzed, in 1912, he remained merely a famous literary figure and an exceedingly odd duck...
...gangster in Renaissance Italy. Cesare had such a flair for disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn the title one historian gave him: "Prince of Magnificent Treasons...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...
...Electra," they were welcoming the most ambitions, and perhaps even the most dramatically effective effort ever seen in the American theater. The play, a modern version of Aeschylus' resounding and grisly trilogy, "The Oresteia," lasted five hours, during which there were four violent deaths, a number of suggestions of incest, and scarcely a letup in the terrible tension. Now comes the movie. No concessions have been made to the public's sentimentality, and the compression of the film to two and a half hours makes the experience if anything more painfully intense...
Mourning Becomes Electro. A painfully faithful version of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest; with Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave (TIME...