Word: patheticism
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"Crime," observes one of the characters, "is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." To dramatize the point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless...
The picture opens with the camera poking among the abused remnants of a wedding reception-empty bottles, broken glasses, cigarette butts-and finally settling on the most pathetic: the father (Spencer Tracy) of the bride (Actress Taylor). Tracy, slumped in an armchair, massages a stockinged foot and begins to recount...
Just as on the stage, Devlin's voice on this record persuades you Lear was "every inch a king." He blazes through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when...
Jan Farrand brings a healthy bounce to the part of Mrs. Pinchwife, the country wife who wants to live like a town lady (i.e. in sin); and Jerry Kilty, as the husband who locks her in her room every time he goes out, mixes a healthy fear of cuckoldry with...
The Years Go. At first, poor little Debby is nearly frightened to death: she cries for a whole week and wears her big, cape-collared coat to breakfast. But gradually her bruised heart is caressed and warmed by the Merrills, and she begins to feel that at last she has...