Word: pauperizing
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...Horse's Mouth is the story of the later life of Gully Jimson: painter, pauper, genius. Taken from the novel by Joyce Cary, the film consists of a number of incidents which act as a vehicle for the character of Gully Jimson. Everything is pointed toward Jimson, everything aimed at exposing his indomitable nature. In fact Jimson is the film, and Alec Guinness, as Jimson, is magnificent...
...peasants of northwestern Spain tell a legend about Lake Sanabria. At its bottom, they say. lies the village of Villa-verde de Lucerna. It was drowned a long time ago. when Jesus, dressed as a pauper, came begging alms and the villagers turned him away. Only a few women who gave him bread were saved, as well as the oven in which the bread was baked -and the oven survived as a small hermitage on the western shore of the lake near the village of Ribadelago...
Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne'er-do-well, and uncouth to the core. His friends call him Slum...
...essentially a tour de force, and Wilder's publishers were surprised at its runaway success. Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 2.000,000 copies, was translated into some two dozen languages and two bad motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper) Susskind, the Bridge was cliffs-above-average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many artificial characters acting intensely about too little. And it completely missed Wilder's subtle mockery of Calvinist theology and his "animal repudiation of my father's notion that what happens...
...major bright spot of the season is the "special," as TV now calls its "spectacular." The genre produced one sheer disaster-Mike Todd's go-minute commercial for Mike Todd on CBS-but its batting average has been lifted high with such hits as The Prince and the Pauper, The Green Pastures, Annie Get Your Gun and the NBC Opera production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Most of these were in color, but there was still no big breakthrough in sales to U.S. homes of color sets, which now number only...