Word: patheticism
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Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when...
The Maroon and Gold were never expected to be in the game, and they didn't disappoint. Leicester fielded a fairly heavy and very slow squad that showed no effective offensive or defensive end play, no passing ability, no pass defense, and a pathetic lack of conditioning.
Jane Wyman in a blonde wig also realizes only a fraction of the pathetic character she plays. Actors Kennedy and Douglas give polished performances, but they swim against the tide.
If Gruber had any one thing to teach, it was the value of a return to the 15th and 16th Century German masters he himself most admired: Matthias Grünewald, Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Their art had been as strictly delineated, and often as sad and...
But Difficult Years offers a masterly Chaplinesque performance by Actor Spadaro, as the pathetic, sometimes ludicrous hero. And Director Zampa tells his quiet, straightforward story with compassion, humor, biting irony and a firm grasp of character. It is a story full of meaning for a world still under totalitarian clouds...