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...novelist loses control when Leonard falls under the influence of Victor Tolson, a muscular, mindless working-class homosexual who lives in the housing project that surrounds the Radcliffe mansion. Tolson lurks about the shrubbery like the hound of the Baskervilles, and sexual symbols parade through the paragraphs wearing sandwich signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey...
Night Must Fall is a muscular new version of the 1937 screen classic based on a drama by Emlyn Williams. The original movie was a deftly understated exercise in terror, starring Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty and Robert Montgomery. Now Albert Finney plays the psychopath who moves into an English country house with a hatbox containing a severed head, and Susan Hampshire and Mona Washbourne are the women he victimizes...
...story is so naively contrived that the audience at times must swallow it out of simple generosity. Mifune-appearing 15 years trimmer and every muscular inch a star-plays an idealistic rookie detective whose confidence is shaken when a pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series...
...company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...tournament in seven years; the closest he had come was second in the 1961 P.G.A. Seniors. Jimmy did not win at Palm Springs either-but he stubbornly clung to the lead until Tommy Jacobs beat him with a 9-in. putt in a sudden-death playoff. Jacobs is muscular, nervous and 28. Said Demaret: "I'm awfully glad that Tommy could win it. After all, he's almost through, and I've still got years...