Word: savorless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original versions of Jesse's life and death and his brother's revenge had Henry Fonda, John Carradine, gorgeous technicolor and a fast-moving story. None of these were available this year, apparently, and the present low-budget production is a savorless blending of improbable dialogue, a yawn-provoking plot, and poor acting. One member of the cast didn't even bother to learn his lines. He must have sensed that it wouldn't make much difference...
...doctor who would thus doom a patient to savorless old age, said the Journal of Medicine, might well be the president of a local geriatric society "shooting for a record . . . What is his conception of his place in society, of his duty to his patients? Who is he to deny the old man the pleasure of passing the reviewing stand . . . saluting the colors, and, if God is good, falling dead at the long anticipated climax of his life? Who is any man to presume to prolong life at the expense of the sacrifice of every bit of its romance, bite...