Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedazzled by his own lust for power and for a woman, Mitchell eventually loses the ability to say "Get thee behind me, Satan." Shedding his wife, his honest friends and his self-respect as he wins the governorship, Lawyer Mitchell is on the point of delivering himself for shipment to hell, but his better nature triumphs in the end. The happy ending is scarcely a surprise, but Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting...
...excellent picture, yet at the same time an accurate and faithful reproduction of the play as Shaw wrote it. True, many scenes implied in the play are acted out in the movie, but no one can seriously criticize such amplification when it is done with the care and respect so characteristic of British films...
...faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect for authority." He contends that when a college employs a teacher who believes in violent overthrow of the government, that college is no longer fulfilling its responsibilities and should receive no privileges from the state...
...robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease of transition from soldier to gangster when the will-to-live exceeds respect for law and the rights of others. The theme itself is very effectively handled...
...French student of literature who spent a summer at the Seminar said, "with respect to American life of today I can say that the Seminar has been the best teacher I have ever had, and that it is the best way to make people of every nation understand each other...