Word: lupino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets guns away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters (TIME...
...Odets is concerned, being out of a job and bitter about it-but he sold his ideals when he went to Hollywood, or so he feels, for the mess of modernistic pottage he lives in, and the inalienable right to Swedish massage. Now his wife (Ida Lupino) is leaving him, his contract is coming up for renewal, and he is beginning to feel like a spiritual gelding-"one of those witless, sold-out guys, sitting around the gin table, swapping phone numbers and the latest dirt...
...Robert Aldrich leans against it. Aldrich gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone...