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...Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy...
Life seemed peculiarly precious and beautiful in moments like these, when transitions proved that it was finite, and Vag passed into that mixture of happiness and sadness which can be expressed only by music, and which literature had best omit...
...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...
There are serious flaws in the script, but Raphaelson writes clean-cut dialogue with some stimulating conversation between critic and playwright. Had he been content to omit the love angle and concentrate more heavily on the conflict between the two men, there would have been a better play...
THANKS FOR YOUR GUESS AT MY IDENTITY. ESPECIALLY CHURCHILL JUNIOR. WHY OMIT VIC OLIVER...