Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, one-half of it, is fine and worth seeing. As for the other half, you might as well go to sleep along with Christopher Blake...
...Sleep (Warner) and Cloak and Dagger (Warner...
...brilliantly erratic liberal, and his fellows that Novelist Marquand saves his none-too-gentle satire. "The truth was that all liberals were turning into self-righteous, complacent social snobs, and each faction was the only one that understood America." Much later, when Tom has walked out on Polly to sleep with his secretary, she sees him and his crowd clearly: "All at once enthusiasms and loyalties and beliefs became very tiresome. The intelligentsia, the bright planners, working on those streamlined blueprints for the brave new world, were always repeating themselves. . . . There was something mechanical about Tom and all those boys...
...Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder, the picture by a series of flashbacks tells the story of how he was once a prize fighter and in love with a nice girl and what went wrong. Burt Lancaster, as the Swede, underplays his part right down to the danger...
...sleep you'll get--he snores all night...