Word: sadisme
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Only grave, good-looking, lyrical Ingrid Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
Melodrama is also included, for the first time, by Scriptwriter Chaplin-storm troopers as brutal, a dictator as pathologically ruthless, as human sadism could desire...
...clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
Died. Wilhelm Stekel, 72, refugee Viennese psychoanalyst, wayward disciple of Sigmund Freud, author of Nervous Anxiety States, Sadism and Masochism; in London...
Around this central thread of narrative many characters appear: landowners who still practise the large courtesy of the frontier, a wise and cynical old lawyer, a rich and respected doctor whose sadism nobody quite suspects, a feeble-minded boy and a pack that picks on him, old farmers who still remember '49, a lonely Catholic priest, a stern old German music teacher...