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Father Luyet's modest report of his work furthered some extravagant speculation. Perhaps men might be put into deep-freeze and revived thousands of years later. At the very least, spermatozoa from exceptional males could Le saved to fertilize females of the future. Unconcerned with such lurid prophecies, Biologist Luyet went on with his experiment...
...progressive forces of our time." Says Director Bunuel: "There is nothing imagined in this film. It is all merely true." But, in its unrelieved gloom and its total sociological despair, The Young and the Damned sometimes seems as one-dimensional and as far short of the truth as a lurid propaganda poster. Typical sequence: the body of a murdered boy being carted on muleback to a public garbage dump while his mother unknowingly passes...
...Gardner portrays the epitome of seductresses with the slight imperfection of a North Chicago accent. James Mason tends to play Oedipus into the role of the Dutchman, but these two minor defects are more than atoned for by the alluring, but not lurid color, the exotic setting, and the originality of the cameraman. The Basques are genuine and speak real Basque. The Spaniards are real, too. Only the plot is unbelievable--after the screen goes white and the lights...
...setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes...
...Written in 1854 by Pamphleteer-Editor T. S. Arthur, Ten Nights made almost as big a sensation as Uncle Tom's Cabin, quickly became the bible of temperance lecturers, was made into a play, set a whole nation singing "Father, dear father, come home with me now!" The lurid lessons of Simon Slade's saloon, the Sickle & Sheaf, eventually produced more laughter than fears, more vaudeville jokes than pious homilies. But their spirit lived on, to bring national prohibition...