Word: overactings
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...more to the development of Lili Engel's character than to any coherent story. Their own character are sketchily drawn; one--a hunchback doctor by the name of Ghoulos--makes no sense at all. Except for Freund, a Viennese merchant convincingly portrayed by Paul Mann, these minor characters generally overact, perhaps because Director Elia Kazan feels the need of sharp contrast to the complexity of Mrs. Engel...
...seemed to want to say more, but the judge cut him off. The spectacle had ended: there was no point in letting Rajk overact his role...
...Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...
...those are the surprises. The rest of the time these actors go corky on their lines, overact operatically or sit and talk. Above all they talk. A tremendous effort has been made in this adaptation to keep Author Hemingway's characters intact. But the adaptation is too literary, too theatrical...
...parts I overact...