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...unable to relate his story to experience. In an already notorious passage in the section entitled "The Princess With the Golden Hair," Wilson describes in fulsome detail the events of an afternoon which his hero spends in bed with a woman. For all its daring detail the episode is lifeless. It is too clinical, too intellectualized-as the protagonist says-"I found that I was expressing admiration of her points as if she were some kind of museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well as the Devils. The hero...
...played by John Simon proclaims that the best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer, go their merry way, presumably troubled by nothing except their consciences...
...about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
Last week Acting Secretary-General Sean Lester and his aid, Martin Hill from County Cork and the League outpost at Princeton, N.J., were ready to declare the lifeless League officially dead. To its heir, U.N., go all the League's dreams, its Geneva buildings, its near-million-dollar library and $162.28 worth of equipment for making...
Devotion (Warner) is a three-year-old strip of damp bark off Warners' wartime backlog. Actually rather better than the average movie, it only looks worse because 1) it is so self-consciously serious, 2) it turns a good movie subject into a peculiarly lifeless romance. The highly romantic subject: the lives & loves-particularly the loves-of the Brontë sisters...