Word: leered
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...King Leer...
Have you met Oscar is the oscilloscope gremlin. He is a fiendish little fellow with a head like a vacuum tube and a greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything...
After years of playing fabulous amateur detective roles with blossoming starlets clinging to his manly arms, George Sanders finally gets top billing in something better than a grade C picture. But even the sophisticated sneer and the amorous leer that made "The Saint" famous, working overtime, can't haul "The Moon and Sixpence" out of the morass of mediocrity...
This ghastly leer in the direction of South America is only the first of a series about the U.S. which Dr. Goebbels projects. In one way Hollywood has unintentionally prepared the ground for him. Thanks to Hollywood, most of the world already has such a completely unrealistic idea of the U.S. that many a European moviegoer may not find the antics of Gone With the Wind so ridiculous as they would appear to U.S. eyes...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...