Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison of Painter Brunel's beauty and the Madison Avenue manner, see cuts...
Michael Rennie carries conviction as the Franciscan, not least because he has, as dressed and tonsured, a close resemblance to the Bellini portrait of St. Francis. Best of all is Anthony Quinn, who wears the conquering swagger of Castile like one to that overbearing manner born...
...daily and makes himself available to people who need help to solve their troubles. All counseling is strictly secret, strictly voluntary. Chaplain McConnell, a Southern Baptist, has an average of three counseling talks a day with Fieldcrest workers on problems ranging from alcoholism to unruly children. In the same manner, neighboring Reynolds Tobacco has been running a successful chaplain program since 1949 and thinks that it makes important business sense: absenteeism is down, production up, plant morale higher than before...
...depressing exploitation of her thwarted ambition. Except for a short interval between the signing and subsequent renunciation of her confession, the audience is now spared this tedium. Joan's American flavor has been achieved through a strenuous effort to forget the Frenchidiom. By not attempting to imitate the French manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position in the struggle. The abrupt change in Joan's outlook when...
...Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American-style, the result would have been ludicrous. Happily, he has adopted all the confidence of the cynical Englishman looking down upon fifteenth century France. He is also an amusing...