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...further trouble is that The Chase keeps preaching, with too-pious insistence, against unnecessary violence. But as a thriller, The Chase can only practice what it preaches at the cost of sufficient thrills. Cramped by such material, Director Ferrer does little more than work up a few lively scenes and-as he has so often done in previous productions-cast some good people in minor roles. As the harassed sheriff, with a pregnant wife into the bargain (Kim Hunter), Cinemactor John Hodiak struggles manfully, but about all he demonstrates is that a policeman's lot is not a happy...
...afternoon papers were published. Not a theater, restaurant or shop was left open throughout the Union of South Africa.* Only one thing marred the pious observance of the political predikants: very few in their congregations seemed to choose to go to church...
Bellows & Fire. Next, he put his thought into a religious and social tract a book which he assured his friends was "needed by all." When it was published a pious and disjointed tirade, his friends turned on him with angry reproaches. Gogol, whose bravado was the thinnest garment of self-loathing, broke and piteously begged forgiveness. "One drop of your pity," was all he asked. Few gave it Gogol lost his grip on the ladder...
...Enemy is the story of a young man named Fabien whose pious mother does her best to shield him from life. Fabien knows nothing of "the strident clamor of desire . . . the storm that rages about the ship of humanity when God slumbers at the stern." Twice a year, however, a gay and worldly woman named Fanny comes to visit his mother, and her visits somehow suggest delights the boy can hardly specify. At 22, Fabien meets Fanny again. Fabien drops his theological studies and becomes her lover, and then, torn by self-anguish, drops her in turn and determines...
...Cabin, quickly became the bible of temperance lecturers, was made into a play, set a whole nation singing "Father, dear father, come home with me now!" The lurid lessons of Simon Slade's saloon, the Sickle & Sheaf, eventually produced more laughter than fears, more vaudeville jokes than pious homilies. But their spirit lived on, to bring national prohibition...