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...evolves among five characters: a sort of bush-league saint (James Cagney) who tries to make people happy; a dim Man Friday (Wayne Morris); a B-girl* (Jeanne Cagney) who claims to have been prominent in burlesque; a fine old pathological liar (James Barton) in fringed buckskins; an itinerant sadist (Tom Powers) who has to supply, singlehanded, Saroyan's conception of the power and proportion of evil in this world...
...criminals, psychotics and other odd mental types. He has 48 photographs in all, divided into six sets. Each set of photographs (see cut) contains the face of 1) an epileptic; 2) a manic depressive in a depressed state; 3) a manic depressive in a manic state; 4) a sadist; 5) a catatonic (completely withdrawn) schizophrenic; 6) a paranoid (active, with delusions of persecution) schizophrenic; 7) a homosexual; 8) a hysteric...
...that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered...
...anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...Little Priest. Other modern dictators had been men so evil that their personalities obscured the inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that...