Word: lancasterism
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As Somerset Maugham's beachcomber, Laughton is puckish without losing his heartiness. He delights in his own dirty-pants-and-sneakers shagginess. For sonority, he has speeches about snow in England and about understanding natives. To show contentedness he smiles abstractedly at his empty beer glass. Eventually he is domesticated...
The ne'er-do-well son of a cattleman, Walker cheats on his wife (Joanne Dru) and relies on his foster brother, Ranch Foreman Burt Lancaster, to rescue him from such scrapes as getting a neighboring girl into trouble. Thinking Lancaster the culprit, the girl's vengeful brothers...
The movie gives the customers plenty of violence; Hero Lancaster's brawls net him a badly mauled head, a knife gash in the side, a bullet in the arm. But much of the story is fitted neatly into a weeks-long cattle roundup over vast stretches of Technicolored country...
"Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since...
Hostesses who play the old Washington society game of inviting mutual enemies to the same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the...