Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest release, J. Arthur Rank has chosen a murderer and a little boy as the core of a touching melodrama with such a combination, the plot can easily decline into a painful concentration on psychological torture and an overly sentimental treatment of the child. The director, however, consciously avoided these pitfalls almost to the extent of robbing the film of speed and realistic emotion. Most of the time, the man and boy are escaping through tortuous fields and swamps, continuously avoided shepherds, bicyclers, and campers. The boy, Jon Whitely, fortunately saves this scene from being exasperating and boring. He doesn...
...child becomes ill. This growing friendship forms the principal, and most interesting part of the movie. The meeting with his adulterous wife and a chase without gunshots are genuinely exciting and well photographed. But one can readily see the exploited limitations of this familiar British cinema plot, although Rank has exploited it with greater restraint and better actors than other producers...
Perhaps the best method of all is to join the Organized Reserve Corps--like the 94th in Boston--and then apply for two years of active duty. You'll be able to bring with you the rank and the leave time that you got in the reserve, and people will treat you much nicer at the Reception Center. Otherwise those first five or ten days can be somewhat unpleasant...
This week the Miru is sailing toward Harvard by way of the Panama Canal. Dr. Davis, Lydia, John and Timothy plan to live on board while the doctor attends his lectures. He will certainly rank as the student who reached Harvard the hardest...
...Perhaps the most apparent thing about artists of the past," muses Levine wistfully, "is their freedom from crisis and dilemma in the sense we find it." Such gentle pictures as King Saul show that Levine need not concern himself with "crisis and dilemma" to achieve high rank among contemporary painters...