Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNIVERSITY: Today and tomorrow are, fortunately, the last days for Peter Ustinov's tedious tour-de-farce, Romanoff and Juliet, based on you know what. (Second feature is that first-rate horror movie, Scream of Fear.) Things look up almost immediately, however, with Sidney Poitier in A Rasin in the Sun. Poitier brings to the movie version of this prize-winning play the same vitality and sense of timing he showed on Broadway. With it is Solid Gold Cadillac, which is Judy Holliday at her incomparable best...
Exedus, cold Wind in August, The Guns of Navarone, Fanny, Romanoff and Juliet, and scream of Fear have been vivisected by the CRIMSON's knife; and this often flagrantly in opposition to both the opinion of major critics and of public opinion, as expressed through box-office receipts...
Starts Wednesday: The picture that Ustinov wrote, directed and acted in, ROMANOFF AND JULIET. Peter Ustinov is a talented and funny man, but his movie shows no sign of it. SCREAM OF FEAR, another pseudo-"Psycho" flick, is the co-feature...
...other "hopeless" ones-Esme, who crouches in a corner with her nightgown over her head; Bertha, who sings endlessly; and Mary-Margaret, who ends each day with a cheery broadcast to Egypt, signing off with "Good night, the World. Good night, everyone, everywhere." When all else fails, the patients scream and curse, fling themselves against "wooden doors that have been kicked and hammered upon for 70 years...
Some of the preachers are healers, like Brother Glen Thompson of Hot Springs, Ark. Thompson takes about four minutes to work himself up to a scream of healing: "That woman down there with arthritis, send in your request!'' he shouts. ''And that woman in her kitchen just now that is suffering with a bad tumor-God wants you to send in your request! And that woman that is sitting there by the radio and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Oh. God, don't doubt this broadcast. Be sure that you help...