Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glen Bowersock, as Prospero, gives a smooth performance, but fails to convey the full significance of the magician's own transformation. Nancy Curtis is a perfect innocent as Miranda, and carries off some of the finest lines in the play with irreproachable style. Competence prevails among the other members of the cast, and Jay Shuchter and Harry Bingham rise well above this level as Antonio and Sebastian...
...Navy maintained its perfect 1955 record (unbeaten, untied, unscored upon) with a 21-0 win over Pittsburgh...
Hayes' story has a journalistic sort of clarity generally found on the screen only in the best documentaries. A trio of escaped convicts looking for a place to hide find the perfect setup in the middle-class home of a department store executive. In order to arouse no suspicions among the neighbors and the police, the criminals force the executive and his family to live as though nothing had happened. The Kafka-like mixture of horror and routine that results gives the picture most of its emotional impact...
...Young and Beautiful (by Sally Benson). Laid in Chicago in 1915, this stage blend of Scott Fitzgerald stories concerns a teen-age beauty who seems, in her blasé posturings, an early Jazz-Age young thing. She yearns for the perfect love, and in the search for it no sooner conquers suitors than she brusquely casts them aside. At last she meets and wins the perfect lover (James Olson), but there follows neither romantic lightning nor satiric laughter. There is rather the chill discovery that even now she cannot respond, that the seeker of a grand passion is incapable...
...Broadway critic called the play "an almost perfect melodrama." The movie lacks a few of the psychological grace notes of the play, but Author Hayes has written a meller with the coiling continuity of a whiplash, and a savage snapper at the end of it. Producer-Director William Wyler has the capacity to see the whole of a motion picture in one flash across the private screen of imagination; and into this sense of the whole he can interpolate ornament-all kinds of human dado and humoristic acanthus-with a skill that gives spontaneity to the grand design without collapsing...