Word: leers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen, men, if it happens again That a hidebound old officer's near, Don't whistle and yell when you see something swell -Be content with a general leer! LEWIS F. OWEN Oradell...
There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...
...they might all have gone down in a sea of verbiage without the mood of pursuing doom running from scene to scene. For this, the bows may well go to Cameraman Tony Gaudio, whose slanting shadows and subdued photography make the tropic atmosphere more ominous than the leer of any villain...
...directed by Charles Vidor, this picture cinematizes Howard Spring's best-selling English novel about a best-selling English novelist, who, having sired an easily spoiled son, does everything he can to spoil him. Brian Aherne is the excessively fond father. Louis Hayward (with a popeyed, bigmouthed, knowing leer) plays the wayward son who, after failing to seduce his future stepmother (Madeleine Carroll), succeeds in seducing the daughter (Laraine Day) of his father's best friend (Henry Hull). In the book the son dies by hanging, in the picture he dies a hero in World...