Word: madman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disordered thoughts at the top of his lungs. But to the literal eye of the camera, the ranting salesman (Fredric March) seems so appallingly extreme a mental case that it becomes hard to believe that his wife, sons or neighbors would not rush him to an asylum. The madman in Loman, as he is played in this film, is constantly overshadowing the man himself...
King Lear is one of Shakespeare's greatest characters, and probably the hardest to perform. He is a king, a father, a madman, all in one. He is more: a man in touch with the great forces of Nature, a man whose oncoming madness and rage are reflected by nature in a terrible thunderstorm, a man who speaks habitually to the gods. An actor, must have great and special powers to do anything like justice to the part. William Devlin does; his Lear is a tremendous performance, fully worthy of Shakespeare's tremendous creation...
...Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last Supper. In the role of the lascivious Empress Poppaea, Patricia Laffan has nothing much to do but hold a pair of cheetahs...
...land where one can follow his faith than in a godless country. To the Communists, there is no God but Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion. But nothing is forbidden to the demented followers of the blasphemous faith of Stalin...
...Ford's office is a nest of papers, topped by the model of a foot--all that was found after a European madman had dissolved an unknown number of people in a vat of sulphuric acid. In addition to being chief of the Legal Medicine Department; he is on the National Committee that drew up plans for a model lego-medical investigation system for states and large cities...