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...episodic scenes, his actions steadily becoming a means of intense personal expression. In climactic scenes, characters realize the nature of their commitment to life and are able to voice it: a joyous fusion of purpose and articulation. At the end of This Land Is Mine (1943), the schoolmaster (Charles Laughton) overcomes his cowardice, refuses to collaborate with the Nazis that have occupied his country, and expresses his conviction in a long speech to the townspeople. As he speaks, the light from the window gives him a presence he had lacked before; we understand that Renoir is showing...
...every session. Chaplains are paid handsomely by the military services, a situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of organized religion get special rates on transport, entertainment and in many other areas, which amounts to a subsidy from taxpayers. And now we have Dirksen, the Charles Laughton of the Senate, crusading to amend the Constitution in favor of school prayer...
Harvard captain Tony Parker and his crew Matt Dobrow tallied 123 points in their four A-division races to pace the Crimson victory. In the B division -- weighted equally in the final scoring with the A division -- skippers Jim Harper and Jim Laughton teamed with Paul Berger to top the five other colleges and clinch...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). High politics in Allen Drury's Advise and Consent (1962) with Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford and Gene Tierney...
...exudes. Other Hollywood directors, he remembers distinctly, knew nothing about their craft, the big studio producers rejected anyone with ideas, and the unknowns he ushered into fame -William Powell, Gary Grant-were ungrateful. He exposes in painful detail the ineptitude and neuroses of Actors Emil Tannings and Charles Laughton. By Sternberg's account, Laughton was not only incapable of delivering the simplest line, but could not begin a scene without listening to a recording of the Duke of Windsor's abdication speech, was in a constant state of panic, and froze so often in front of the camera...