Word: satanically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Satan Bug. Panic spreads at Station 3, an imposing desert installation surrounded by barbed wire and watchdogs and spoken of in whispers as "the most secret chemical-warfare establishment in this hemisphere." The chief security officer has been murdered. Dr. Baxter is missing. Dr. Oster is a marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global...
...save the world. Before Maharis can track down the crazed millionaire behind the bacilli scare, Florida has been decimated by botulinus. Maharis endures sundry perils prior to a climactic wrestling match in a helicopter high above Los Angeles, and the bulk of mankind survives to enjoy movies like The Satan Bug. Just harmless formula stuff, actually. The effects wear off before the film is half over...
...there is no sin but ignorance. Faustus holds the same views, but this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years of life, during which he will unlock all the secrets of the universe, command all earthly power, be granted every whim...
...despair; yet Faustus cannot repent. He can grasp the letter of God's law ("The reward of sin is death: that's hard"), but he cannot conceive the saving grace of Christ. He asks Mephistophilis why the Devil's agent is out of hell, and Satan's servant answers: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? As Faustus...
...cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty line" like polysyllabic mouthwash, except for James Ray's Mephistophilis, who, to give him his due, is devilishly good. By contrast, Lou Antonio in the title role is fumbling and playboyish. It is rather too bad that Faustus' pact with Satan should overlook mastery of the part...