Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnestly directed by Charles Vidor, this picture cinematizes Howard Spring's best-selling English novel about a best-selling English novelist, who, having sired an easily spoiled son, does everything he can to spoil him. Brian Aherne is the excessively fond father. Louis Hayward (with a popeyed, bigmouthed, knowing leer) plays the wayward son who, after failing to seduce his future stepmother (Madeleine Carroll), succeeds in seducing the daughter (Laraine Day) of his father's best friend (Henry Hull). In the book the son dies by hanging, in the picture he dies a hero in World...
...kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders which are all but shown on the screen, one suicide, maddening jealousy and maddening love, puffing locomotives and sooty slums: this should give you your fill of "reality" for more than one night. But however gruesome and depressing...
Before writing the earlier novel, Lewis spent months in the company of Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) learning to respect the selflessness of medical science, to see human weakness and social bigotry through the struggles of its dedicated professionals. Background for Lewis' new novel is the author's five-year experience with the professional theatre, first as a collaborator (Jayhawker and It Can't Happen Here), later as an actor-playwright (Angela Is Twenty-Two), member of Equity and player in the summer theatre and on the road. What Lewis has found to respect this time...
...reader will note that Sinclair Lewis' mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being...
Author Harriman, son of Broker Oliver Harriman, prepped at St. Mark's, Southboro. Neither dolt nor safe-player himself, in 1930 he announced from a jury box that under no circumstances would he vote for conviction in a prohibition case. The unnamed school in this, his first novel, need not be St. Mark's. His Winter Term need not be compared to such first-rate treatment of adolescents as Gide's in The Counterfeiters. But it is intelligent, humorous, sympathetic, in spots if not in toto should ring chapel bells for former inmates of the hundreds...