Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilder commented that Whitman's intense desire to intrude himself into his poetry was one reaction to the American loneliness. "He had a longing to roll, rock and reel with humanity...
...Yale Record he is admired by everyone, not because he can write well, which he often can't but because he has achieved success and become a wheel. As one Eli explained, he "fought and conquered." Ask a Yalie who the "big men on campus" are, and he'll reel off a dozen or so names and positions. Year-book polls show that 70 percent of the students "admire students who occupy important extra-curricular positions" and 69 percent "would like to be prominent in extra-curricular activities"; almost as many varsity athletes want to be chairman of the Yale...
...millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...
From the start it is clear that Greer Garson has been stricken with one of those dread, nameless Hollywood diseases that will kill her off in the last reel. She receives the news with a chin-up, clear-eyed gallantry that has her doctor blubbering. When Walter Pidgeon, her remarkably obtuse husband, finally catches on, he too is reduced to choked-up admiration. Meanwhile, Greer gently discourages a U.S. colonel (John Hodiak) who is in love with her, straightens out the affairs of her nitwit daughter (Cathy O'Donnell), and sets right the tangled marriage of a British general...
...Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many a moviegoer may find Director Lean's storytelling entertaining enough to divert attention from the weaknesses...