Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Anthony Mann and his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...
...entire prostitute population, Playwright Chayefsky has come out firmly on the side of marital fidelity. But a reasonably attentive moviegoer will realize that Chayefsky offers genuine insights as well as phony issues. And in The Bachelor Party these insights have been skillfully translated to the screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden...
...Director Anthony Mann and his camera tell a modest story of the Korean war with an intimate intensity that makes every theater seat feel like a foxhole"; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...
...resent anybody, including Kier Nash, writing a poem which does not contain its own "key." Poems about Thomas Mann's creations should be confined to the margins of his books. Yet, Nash's poem is the most lyrical work I have read in the Advocate in a long time. Tricks like "mild feet" or "hair lit to lightning" grate on the mind's eye, but most of the words do their work well...
...onlooker catches the fever, and with his camera Director Mann works insidiously to drive it up. Never for an instant does he let the moviegoer escape from the appalling situation the platoon is in. Never for an instant does the moviegoer know where he is-or where They are. He marches, hides, fights, watches every minute with the fighting men, and the watching is the worst. For as the watcher stares down his gunsights into the bright summer grasses, and the sun and the wind play mazily together in the barley and field flowers, and the watcher goes on waiting...