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...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
...without sin among you be the first to cast a stone...
...First Deadly Sin, Sanders...
...down in the pleasant, sheltered stacks to pore into a work of Chaucer or to explicate Rimbaud or Beaudelaire, is living his life and building his career upon the ruined hopes and broken dreams of other people every bit his human equal, yet who--for reason of no greater sin than non-possession of the proper ticket of admission--will never be able to live as he now lives, stroll as he strolls through ivy-covered lanes, across diagonals of ancient stone between the sheltered space of shaded court yards and old red brick, Georgian walls...
...movie to his Swiftian demolition of untrammeled appetite, his parable, as many critics have read it, of the collapse of modern society, Ferreri has arrived at a tantalizing blend: the dirty movie with the heart of an impassioned medieval moralist. The director has the puritan's inevitable fascination with sin and corruption: he's titillated by what he shows us, but he's repelled, too--and it's that moralistic disapproval, that unconcealable sense of shock, that separates his work, for all its salacious preoccupations, from that of the true, unstricken pornographers...