Word: murderess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with a gigantic eel-if the show lasts long enough...
...school he was already writing the page-long sentences that make even non-asthmatics gasp for breath. A schoolfellow took him to a brothel, but Proust was appalled; the madam looked like a murderess. At any rate, he was destined for darker vices...
Several of the book's horrible happenings are preserved in the movie, most of them made good in the end. The murderess (a nice girl really) is acquitted, the illegitimate girl is reconciled with her mother, and the nude-swimming couple are really in love and get married. Essentially, the movie is about normal love and family relationships. But Peyton Place is so pretty, its homes are so full of healthy, handsome, well-dressed, good-hearted youngsters, its air so thick with platitudes, its ending so obviously destined to be happy, that it is hard to believe that...
...citizens of Peyton Place are performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
...everything for the revolution." She could not understand why Russia, a friend of Hungary, had sent in troops, and she insisted that the aims of the students who took up arms were not subversive. Said Freedom Fighter Toth: "Whatever I might have done, I do not consider myself a murderess...