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...than 800 paintings in his 37 years, sold only two, and lived on handouts from his brother. But because the Hollywood story builds relentlessly to Van Gogh's ear-slicing for its climax. Lust for Life falls midway between being a first-rate art film and high-pitched melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: VAN GOGH IN HIGH YELLOW | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Based on Norman Brooks's unsuccessful 1954 Broadway play, Fragile Fox, the film has raised the hackles of the Defense Department, which considers it "derogatory to Army leadership during combat." A more serious charge is that the picture spends more time making melodrama than making sense. Even in its fighting, the dice are curiously loaded: the G.I.s are shown as tattered scarecrows on the edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...difficult drama to produce: it is long, the requirements on the actors in interpretation are tremendous, and the title of this musty classic does not draw at the box-office. Moreover, it is a three-ring circus of dramatic forms--a curious medley of tragedy, farce, melodrama, satire and philosophy--which presents an almost insurmountable problem of style and pacing for the director...

Author: By Marge Stern, | Title: Wellesley's Dramatic 'Faust' Employs Weird Stage Effects | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

...demonstration that Faust is as suited to the stage as to the bookshelf, Frank has treated the play as a "mystery," rather than as a tragedy or philosophical melodrama. For the theatre, it is difficult to find fault with his judgment...

Author: By Marge Stern, | Title: Wellesley's Dramatic 'Faust' Employs Weird Stage Effects | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

...afraid of this good and harmless man. It is all a boring mystery to the two boys until the wife's brother arrives, and in a night of violence, in which the prodigal wrecks all the furniture in the house, they piece together the elements of a painful melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unforgiven Trespasses | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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