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Barricade (Warner) casts Raymond Massey as a leering sadist at the head of a shady gold mine worked by bums and brigands who have nowhere else to go but jail. Into his clutches come Dane Clark and Ruth Roman, two fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time...
Objective Best. The result is a painstaking, broad-viewed and valuable study of a vital period in Russian development, throughout which Historian Eckardt does his objective best to separate Ivan into two Ivans: 1) the Personal Sadist, 2) the Unifier, born out of his time, caught in the inexorable process of history. Though the method doubtless deserves respect, its limitations are never so clear as in a book on Ivan...
This Sword, by the way, was a most unusual villain. He was obviously cultured, owned a vaguely-British accent, and frequently employed such radio invective as "you scoundrels" and "treacherous dogs." He also discussed his schemes with his mother, a creepy old sadist whose pulpy tones probably sent dozens of little tykes howling...
That is not all. One of her prosecutors has made public his notes since the reduction of her sentence. He described her as depraved and a Nazi sadist. Because of the limitations of time only a small part of the evidence against her was presented at the trial. No mention was made of her sexual depravity which could be described only as maniacal. She escaped the death penalty because she conceived an illegitimate child during her internment. She is an incredibly amoral woman...
...obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating idea or feeling can possibly be behind them. The reader, no matter how patient, can never find out. Slobbering Sadist. This Very Earth runs its weary preordained course of rape, murder and stupidity without once arousing the slightest emotional response. The dialogue bears no living relationship to the character speaking it, and the characters are all pressed from the same worn Caldwell dies: the lazy, immoral man; the cheap woman...