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...Shrike (Universal-International), adapted from Joseph Kramm's coldly furious Pulitzer Prizewinning play (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), is both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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