Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title that would send the most tolerant Boston censor racing to his alarm gong, the latest United Artist release quickly unmasks as a lukewarm comedy well grooved in the rut of its countless predecessors. For lack of a decent script, Hollywood has again fallen back on the opium of "poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds to a sleepy halt after...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in a rather glossy Technicolored version of the Rawlings novel about poor folks (TIME...
...Poor Chicoys and rich Pritchards faced each other at breakfast and Juan, more or less for the hell of it, began seducing Mildred...
Nobody raised a cry for poor Punch, but the letters column in the London Times was full of protests (from Anthony Eden, among others) at the suspension of the New Statesman, Spectator (missing an issue for the first time in 118 years), Economist, Tribune, Time & Tide. If the Government wanted to save power, asked one critic, why not shut down that high-powered thrillmonger (circ. 7,500,000), the Sunday News of the World? The five weeklies, which do much to mold British intellectual opinion, were forbidden such makeshifts as mimeographed sheets...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...