Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caller through the intricacies of such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch, Beaux of Oak Hill. At their final Metropolitan appearance before leaving for this week's engagement in Montreal, they surprised and delighted their audience with a spirited rendition of the Virginia reel to the tune of Turkey in the Straw, then "la-la-laed" through a chorus of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and bade farewell with shouts of the word that echoed Manhattan's verdict...
...pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backwards, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy, "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half...
...that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel, suffers at the hands of Scriptwriter-Director Joseph Mankiewicz an even more drastic devaluation of its intellectual currency...
...town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during one of the least convincing murder trials ever filmed, when it tries to mop up the whole mess by blaming it on the town's callousness and nasty-minded curiosity...
Several months ago a man with a motion picture camera went whirring about the community filling reel after reel with scenes of life at Harvard. At the same time, presumably, diligent young men were burrowing away at film archives around the nation in an attempt to discover motion pictures of the late and great of Harvard College. The result is the featurette now playing at the Exeter--To the Age That Is Waiting...