Word: sadists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
...police. Yet he is not a devoted Bolshevik, simply a self-dramatizing wreck of a man without faith, family or country. His only love on earth is a prostitute called Lola (also a secret agent on the side). His condition is well understood by an ex-Catholic Pole, a sadist beast named Kowalski, who taunts Brennan with the knowledge that in following a dream of heaven on earth, he has lost honor on earth and all hope of heaven. A true nihilist, Kowalski knows himself as a "lost lackey'' of Stalin...
...motion picture which deals with a personality at all out of the ordinary comes along, some sociology-happy critic inevitably calls it a case study. Such has been the fate of The Strange One-- and nothing could be more inaccurate. Although its central character is clearly a sadist, this film is not a piece of pseudo-science; it is just a motion picture, and a very good...
...lago of this interlude is a cadet officer named Jocko De Paris (Ben Gazzara), a rising young sadist who has already learned that it is not enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning...
...course of this thoroughly distasteful affair, the spectator gets hardly a whiff of the shower-room sociology that permeated the book. He does learn a bit about what goes on inside a sadist-mostly, in this case, repressed homosexuality. Most of all, he gets a handsome introduction to two of Hollywood's most promising young men: Director Jack Garfein, 26, and Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows...