Word: patheticism
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Drub-a-drub-drub. As a preacher, O'Hara ran heavily to bile. He played on a vast range of peeves-from the present times ("The Age of the Jerk") to a movie producer who had hard words for one of his scripts (he even "bombed out of television...
Himself Proclaimed. Rather than return to school, Gavin enlists in the air-defense service as a medical aide and is thrown among the rude, crude Irish whom he has never known-men who have not had jobs since the Depression. In a whirl of discovery, Gavin joins a Communist theater...
There is something patronizing and Chaplinesque in this scene: a touch of the pathetic and the grotesque that ungratefully suggests an author condescending from an arrogant altitude upon the lives of the absurd little people he has consented to consider. But the grotesquerie, more often than not, is magically imaginative...
Reetchie, who has led Mr. Endikin through the time of trouble into the green pastures -- to the liturgy runs, is a lonely God with a congregation of one. Jack Salomon is quite effective as the pathetic worshiper. He is expressive and understandable as a man needing a God who ends...
Harlow isn't bad, it's disappointing, which is worse. So much could have been done with the life is the 1930's sex goddess, and so little was, that all the good acting and photography is wasted. At least in Hercules and its uproarious sequels Mr. Levine didn't...