Word: shatnerized
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...advance at the box office, but for the stage it is a shambling step backward. It tells of a young Hong Kong prostitute (France Nuyen) debauched at 13 by an uncle but in essence still fine and pure, and of an even finer and purer young Canadian painter (William Shatner) who, though achingly tempted, resists a loving, willing Suzie in scene after scene after scene. At last, when her baby is killed, he marries...
...result was far better than any one of the surgeons had a right to expect. Director John Frankenheimer caught the drought-tautened tension of the desert town, William Shatner was terrifyingly convincing as the rabble-rousing shopkeeper bent on avenging his hurt pride, Steiger made the drunken sheriff both scruffy and appealing, as Serling intended...