Word: lancasterism
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Criss Cross (Universal International] is fairly routine gangster melodrama in which the hero (Burt Lancaster) is led into a whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug...
Criss Cross is further brightened by some excellent supporting performances. The best are Stephen McNally's detective, Dan Duryea as a sarcastic thug who seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's...
Last week, the committee of five met in M. Herriot's salon to see whether they could get to a compromise. The French were represented by tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed...
I had neither read nor seen "Richard III" prior to Monday night and consequently my approach to this interpretation may have benefited from lack of prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses...
Lancaster wears his considerable knowledge of Greek history and architecture without pretension, and his first-rate drawings in line and color make Classical Land, scape a far more attractive guide than the standard authorities. What gives Lancaster's book its special quality is the easy and pertinent shuttling from...