Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syncopation. In Pomeroy, Ohio, 82-year-old John F. Mitchell divorced 75-year-old wife Bertha because she listened to jazz radio programs, despite her solemn wedding-day promise two years ago that she would allow no sin about their house...
Written with some pungent dialogue and played as if it really mattered, the movie manages to keep its hokum fairly lively. Joan's fans will be glad to find that, for all her suffering, the wages of sin never loom quite as large as the dividends. They may also glean some thrill from the script's implied message: a woman's decision to walk out on a grubby home and poor provider is virtually an inalienable right...
Rattigan's fidelity to Rattigan is also responsible for some troublesome defects. He commits the serious cinematic sin of letting his climax - the boy's final legal victory - take place offscreen, as it did offstage. In the play, the impossibly haughty barrister who wins the case was a rich treat of tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs...
...physicists, says Seitz, must forget their "sense of sin" about the atomic bomb and their feelings of guilt. They must abandon their "one world" pacifism. They must pitch in and help at once, or the civilization they love will sink back into medieval darkness...
...before this episode begins sheep herders had tried to enter the country and share the fertile lands with the cattle ranchers, but the sheepmen were repulsed in a great battle. When one looks into the philosophy of this picture, he sees that the battle was obviously a victory for sin. For there is a principle of good living which should be obeyed: All Animals Are Created Equal...