Word: redeemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over an occasional lag, satisfying enough to redeem a contrived epilogue...
...fragments into a literal, realistic continuity, with only a gesture or two in the direction of the original atmosphere. As a result, the story's poignancy and humor are all but swallowed up in a drab, tedious film that even a set of good characterizations cannot redeem...
...that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
...state will "wither away," once the evil institution of property is abolished. This illusion is the characteristic error of Communism. "Communism is so cruel and so fanatical because it has a completely erroneous conception of human nature. Living by the illusion that the abolition of a social institution will redeem man of all sin, it naturally feels justified in using any means which will attain this...
...what will happen when the family buys a dog that Gilbreth disapproves of, and what the cute little remarks are going to be when mother has her twelfth baby. You can easily sense each time the "cheaper by the dozen" gag is coming up. Only Gilbreth's time studies redeem the movie from being completely hackneyed, and they aren't enough to make it really amusing. "Cheaper by the Dozen" is just a quantitative variation on the "Life with Father" theme...