Word: slickness
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Even in these conventional contexts, the classic theme of salvation by prostitution preserves a little of its ancient power. The power is blunted-though commerce is served-by a glossy production (Pandro S. Berman), slick direction (Daniel Mann), solid but stolid performances, and a script (Charles Schnee and John Michael Hayes) that reads as though it had been copied off a washroom wall. Heroine to hero, with a broad wink, as she glides seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...
...Avance, shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...
...book the conclusion was richly ambiguous. In the film it is merely slick. So is the camera work; but some of the performances are better than that. Gert Frobe, who scored so impressively as a comic capitalist in Rosemary, creates with amazingly few gestures one of the most frightening psychopaths the screen has exhibited in recent years. And Actor Ruhmann, as the inspector, skillfully suggests that somewhere behind his wooden expression there are termites at work...
Will Meyer be re-elected? In 1951 won on a fluke, running against a whom even Republican Party regular call "an idiot." In 1960, the campaign much together; Stafford is a slick, read candidate whose words may what the people of Vermont want hear. To win the state, Meyer the Democrats must attract at least per cent of the Republican vote, before counting on most of the Democratic Independents. His chances are less and even...