Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Robert Montgomery has the screen to himself, "The Saxon Charm" threatens to become a solid, intelligent film. Montgomery plays the part of the villainous Broadway producer Matt Saxon with skill and variety and as much subtlety as the script allows. Saxon in supposed to be the kind of domineering psychopath who wraps his will around everybody in his path, and drains them of individuality. He barges into their private lives, insulting, fascinating, and usually ruining them. That's the theoretical Saxon, at any rate...
...Saxon Charm (Universal-International) is an adaptation of the novel by Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman about the strange character and conduct of a Broadway producer. Eric Busch (John Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists...
WEST VIRGINIA. Republican Chapman Revercomb had surprised even himself in 1942 by edging out demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
...maid in the Monday family's home, Sara pitied the "hampered and hagged" master of the house, Matt Monday, who though in his 40s was still "like a child, and kept from his rights as a man" by "his good mamma and his older sister." When the timid Matt proposed, Sara accepted him. Then, aflame with youth and cocky in her new social position, she began to notice other...
...False & Unfriendly." When the Mondays' house was invaded by Gulley Jimson, a ne'er-do-well painter, Sara's troubles came to a head. A family friend, whose conclusions were "false, and what was worse, unfriendly," tattled to Matt, and domestic peace was destroyed. Matt wasted away and Sara ran off with Gulley. Sara was happy, for Gulley "was the most of a man I ever knew." And even after he ran off with another woman and destitute Sara became a cook for eccentric old Mr. Wilcher, she was willing to steal for Gulley when he turned...