Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crime and Punishment," the psychological study of a starving student who murders because he thinks he is above the laws of man, follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov...
This summer Thurber announced delightedly that he could read again. With a telescopic spectacle lens, thick as a bottle bottom, he had managed painfully to scan a short sentence in a novel...
...famous lawyer Ronald Coleman hadn't worn a mustache and a van dyke, he would have lost his legal look, and "The Talk of the Town" would have been minus it's one really novel feature. But not even a clean-shaven Coleman could have slowed down the pace of this fast-stepping comedy. Technical errors and a few kernels of corn keep it from the top, but it still ranks high among the year's better pictures...
Author Heym's publishers believe that Hostages is "the first really great novel to be written in English" by a refugee from the Nazis. Coming at a time when the tragic fate of flesh & blood hostages is a steady newspaper item, Author Heym's fiction is likely to sell on the strength of its title alone...
Stefan Heym, 29, is editor of New York's anti-Nazi weekly Deutsches Volksecho. He fled the Gestapo in 1933. His father, seized as a hostage, later committed suicide. Author Heym's novel is dedicated to his father's memory...