Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasize the foreboding mood. But the almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
...anyone who hasn't heard, Mr. Edmund Wilson is teaching at Harvard this year. He is lecturing on the literature of the Civil War. The Class meets at Longfellow Alumnae...
...Mr. Osborne is widely regarded as a deplorable cynic and naysayer, but in Cliff, who plays a wise, calm, and modest Horatio to Jimmy's Hamlet, he has created a character who must be unique in modern drama: a handsome young man who lives with a married couple, tied to them both by the warmest affection, yet endowed with hot pants for neither...
Even the faults of the movie are largely those of the play. Mr. Osborne believes, and tells us, that the difficulties in the Porter marriage are due to Alison's shortcomings as well as Jimmy's, but this is never embodied dramatically: she appears as a worn, long-suffering patsy for Jimmy's tirades, with no vices or bitcheries to balance his, and no problems except Jimmy. In their brief moments of loving communion, Mr. and Mrs. Porter like to pretend that he is a jolly super bear and she a bushy-tailed squirrel--an odd and embarrassing touch...
...friend of hers, who begins by hating Jimmy, crumples into his arms with incredible rapidity when Alison leaves him, and considerately vacates his bed when Alison comes home, Claire Bloom seems understandably tentative in a role that Mr. Osborne never finished conceiving. Garry Raymond is quietly admirable as Cliff, and Dame Edith Evans, in a brief appearance, makes an old Cockney woman thoroughly Dickensian and lovable, striking almost too simple and cheerful a note in a perplexed and perplexing film...