Word: overwrought
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Scenarist Barnes (who has adapted the film from his own play) has written a snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality. He lays his ironies on with a trowel and drives his points home with a bludgeon. The direction is uneven. As in Joe Egg, which he also filmed, Director Medak frequently has his actors break into ironic renditions of old pop songs, like Varsity Drag or Dem Bones, a device whose brittle charm crumbles with repetition. He also persists in having his films wretchedly photographed. The Ruling Class looks as if it were shot under...
Jewish attachment to Israel may be occasionally overemotional and overwrought, but then Israel is only one of the issues troubling Jews. Social change in America has proved as disquieting to Jews as it has to other ethnic groups. Like Italians and Irish, blacks and Chicanos, Poles and Czechs, Jews are turning inward, trying to re-establish an identity that seems threatened in contemporary America. All the talk...
...Force. Despite inevitable repetition, and the primitiveness of their writings and drawings, the peasants make that point far more vividly than Western antiwar critics with all their articulate and occasionally overwrought outrage - Author Branfman included...
Harry Luce stood with the other editors; we would go ahead with the story. I sighed deeply and told Harry that Hughes probably already knew that. "Ridiculous," he scoffed, and gave me a lecture about having become overwrought about this story. I left the house and made my way to the lilac bush and my rented, locked Ford. As I slipped the key in the door, I noticed with a start that there was something white slipped beneath the rim of the horn. It was a business card, printed with the name of the TWA manager in Phoenix...
...merchant seaman, makes a prolonged visit, waiting for the birth of his grandson. The father is a grizzled old Yankee, and ideas predictably clash with those of his equally non-conformist but distastefully aesthetic daughter and her would-be husband (the couple never marry). In a climax as overwrought as the fruitiest of Bergman-either Ingrid or Ingmar-ex-med student Danny delivers his son without a doctor's aid, while fending off his 'father-in-law's' drunken attempts to break into the delivery-room. Just as the babe sees light, its grandfather brains himself on a lampstand...