Word: julien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lacking a plot, Director-Adapter Julien Duvivier has strung together an ill-assorted, 115-minute necklace of incidents-some mildly irreverent (as when Fernandel steals a favorite crucifix from his old church), some funny, some dull. As usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn...
After that came a summer of stock in Bridgton, Me., and before the summer was over, she also read her lines before a justice of the peace with Jay Julien, a young lawyer-producer (his latest play: A Hatful of Rain...
...Beyle-Stendhal, that kind of playacting was how men of character faced the facts of life. It is a key to his,thought. He hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...
...theme of grim reality punctuates both the filming and the acting. Director Julien Duvivier lets his camera dwell at length upon the filth and vice of the Casbah. He delights in picturing squalid, old women sitting in doorways or sunning themselves upon the endless steps and terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...
With this ceremony, the first of a new line of earthmovers, excavators and powered dump cars came off the assembly line in Japan. If the gods do look favorably on the enterprise, it will be because of the foresight of Julien R. Steelman, 47, president of Milwaukee's Koehring Co., which supplied know-how and a small amount of capital, and Japanese Industrialists Toshio Doko and Hiroyuki Hayashi, heads of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry, which furnished most of the capital and a plant. Together they formed the Ishikawajima-Koehring Co., to provide Japan with the tools for some...