Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hole in the Head (by Arnold Schulman) possibly originated as a kind of problem play-as something that should tackle the situation of a roughneck Jewish rolling stone left to bring up a twelve-year-old motherless son. That, in any case, is substantially how-after lots of Miami-hotel atmosphere and Jewish-family antics-it concludes: far from anything being straightened out almost nothing in A Hole in the Head has been explored...
...Touch of Frost. Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time...
...Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...
...sweeping Kurd landscape. But it also has works by less famed painters, and in some of their pictures New Mexico comes to life with surprising sharpness. Among the standouts: Ernest Blumenschein's Downtown Albuquerque, a view of rooftops and buildings from a hotel window; Kenneth Barrick's Motherless Child, a dimly glimpsed bracero woman carrying a child through a sandstorm...
More than Stanley Kramer's other ventures into celluloid theatre, Member of the Wedding illustrates the difficulty of transferring a play from stage to film. Subservient to words on the stage, visual effects take precedence on the screen. Carson McCullers' story of a motherless adolescent who feels herself an "I person" among "we people" is one of great delicacy, but through the literal eye of the camera, which focuses as intently on an ice-box as on the actors, many of the nuances are lost. And with the camera's greater scope, the restrictions of a single set become very...