Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convey the dramatic moments. The reporter describing New York's death by the black gas, James Stinson, has the reserve of an announcer and the sensitivity to horror of the actor. Colgate Salsbury brings a depth and a strength, mingled with pomposity, to the Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Pell does a praiseworthy, although not convincing job as the Princeton professor who watches the Martians with a philosophical eye from the first flourish to the last wriggle...
...Bassanio, lose their initial remoteness and become recognizable as lovers. Jean Loud, in the part of Nerissa, is charming throughout, gaining stature as the play progresses. As Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Michael Pollatsek injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious defect in the acting of these and the other members of the large cast is their sloppyness in meeting cues. If Smithies subjects them to a little more discipline, they should...
...Haya Hararit. The second tells of Michael Wager, a Jew from New York City (but, refreshingly, not from Brooklyn), who is both wounded and briefly disillusioned in an unsuccessful attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. This episode gives a cleanly realistic picture of street fighting: instead of charging pell-mell at the enemy, the Israelis advance in twos and threes, hugging the walls of houses and making quick dashes for the protection of doorways and abutments...
Blind River is past its early frenzy, but now it is pulsating with the deeper excitement of proved riches and the pell-mell drive to get them out of the ground. Geologists have declared that there may be uranium ore reserves of at least 150 million tons in the 900 square miles. Already the shafts are being sunk and mills built for four huge mines. One of them alone, Algom, will be capable of producing more uranium than all of the 600-plus uranium mines...
Violent Saturday (20th Century-Fox) is a big, rough, savvy sort of pell-meller-perhaps the best thing of its crude kind that Hollywood has offered in 1955. The idea of the picture, trenchantly written by Sydney Boehm and slickly directed by Richard Fleischer, is as simple and as nerve-racking, as a bomb. Three thugs arrive in a small Arizona mining town to hold up the bank. While the robbers prepare their plans, while the bomb ticks away in the mind, the moviegoer stares with itchy horror into the faces and the lives of the innocent bystanders who will...