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Repentant Sinner. Pirogov was promptly released. But Barsov was whisked out of sight. The Soviet embassy searched his empty $2-a-day hotel room, then sent a note to the State Department. State...
Last week the embassy publicly demanded that State explain the "sudden disappearance" of their repentant sinner...
According to the testimony of Gustave Flaubert (James Mason), Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) was by temperament more sybarite than sinner. Corrupted by her early reading of "lush "romances, she developed a love of fine clothes and luxurious emotions which her life as a peasant's daughter did little to satisfy. Her difference from other women lay not in her tastes and temptations, but in her ruthless talent for translating them into fact...
...Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to long gambling bouts in German spas, and to falling fits and visionary religious enthusiasms...
Hafiz and Bashir denounce the doctrine of original sin. "How cruel," says Hafiz, "to think a newborn baby is a sinner." Bashir adds cheerfully: "Islam says Heaven is eternal, but that Hell is only temporary. Hell is like a hospital, a place where people get better...