Word: meatiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-constructed movie. Into its making went an intelligent screen play by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan; some distinguished lighting effects and camera work by Milton Krasner; and Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz's talent for handling atmosphere and sets as effective projections of character. Meatiest character, of course, is arrogant old Monetti, a role which Robinson plays (Italian accent, organ-grinder mustache and all) with bravura and obvious relish...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...
...Pull out now, before it's too late!" Go out into the starry night, like Walt Whitman, and enjoy the beauty of the heavens while the learned astronomers rave on inside; but whatever you do, don't try to become a learned astronomer yourself. Astronomy is one of the meatiest, most practical fields of concentration offered at Harvard...
...find them highly instructive, while other will just be overpowered. But nobody will deny that, with the exception of the Joel McCrra-Jean Arthur neeking in "The More the Merrier" a few years back, they are the best of their kind ever filmed. In addition, the first, biggest, and meatiest of these shows dramatic technique at its best, for, its local pictorial merits to the side, it is also an indispensable and cleverly contrived part of the plot's development...
...Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...