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...threat of television ("Quality is the only answer") to a query on a line of dialogue ("Can we get by with the word 'louse'? I thought it was taboo"). One memo noted that the titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week job at the most, but as long as we have such...
...another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles and a pistol. (Playwright Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley, a wartime MP who was also in the washroom, said the beating was done with fists, couldn't recollect...
...were full of familiar Ashton trademarks-the wit of Wedding Bouquet, the subtle fancy of Facade, the gay, gregarious pageantry and a little of the slapstick of Cinderella. And there were salty passages indeed; Rimbaud's (Nicholas Magallanes) painfully sexual grapple with Profane Love (Melissa Hayden) was both lurid and profane...
...degradation that begins just around the corner. Before she is 13, Meg is raped by an older boy, manages to pass her history examination by threatening to expose her teacher, whom she has caught in a Lesbian relationship. Meg's parents know nothing of her life in that lurid world: few adults could hope to understand her much better in the other...
This thumbnail review by an indiscreet studio executive was about all that the public really had to go on before RKO rushed Producer-Director Rossellini's Stromboli into more than 400 U.S. theaters this week. After loudly ballyhooing the movie for weeks as a kind of lurid peepshow ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), the studio had suddenly refused all advance screenings for movie critics. The reason, RKO frankly admitted, was fear that unfavorable reviews might cool the fever of public interest in the Stromboli idyll of Director Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (TIME...