Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young man of the Wildean haut monde would never dream of endangering the seat of his immaculate trousers by sitting on the floor. These are minor matters, but they indicate that the nicely calibrated judgment and control that...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children, which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour...
...tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From 40,000 Fathoms...
...best friend to jail because his office accounts do not balance. Righteous as Robespierre. Nemeth finally convinces himself that his Russian-born mistress is really a White Russian and denounces her. The girl commits suicide, and for a moment-but a moment only-Comrade Nemeth sees himself for the monster he has become...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour...