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...sheriff who can shoot fast than a good one who can't. It is a tribute to Quinn's inventiveness that by scratching, bumbling, slobbering and gazing dumbly out of his unshaven face, he manages to make a conventional pasteboard character seem like a real human slob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man in Need of a Shave | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Hollywood. What is rare is the driving sincerity of William Holden, his almost complete lack of pretentiousness, his energetic blend of talent and intelligence, his simple human decency to other people. One of his directors sums him up as "the typical American boy who wanted to become a slob, but couldn't make the grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Conquest of Smiling Jim | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...reformed lush." Millions of people felt a choking feeling in their throats when they read Lillian Roth's life story; countless alcoholics, fighting their hard struggle to return to the world of reality, have been inspired and lifted up by her struggle. And then this pseudo-intellectual slob of a reviewer comes up with his crummy appraisal and simple remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Take, for instance, the short-order cook at the "shack" in this picture, the one they all call Slob (Lee Marvin). He looks as if he never did anything more subversive than add a slice of forefinger to the chicken salad, but his name is Mr. Gregory, and his game is dirtier than his sandwich board. He steals U.S. scientists and ships them to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...stopped. The FBI (Frank Lovejoy) moves in, but the FBI these days, as every moviegoer has reason to believe, is more interested in getting its woman than its man. Agent Lovejoy keeps putting the arm on the counter girl (Terry Moore) instead of on the spy, which leaves Slob with nothing to do, through most of the picture, but make sandwiches. And yet, Actor Marvin, who is easily the most repulsive object that Hollywood has dug up in recent years, is such a skillful performer that when he starts hacking away at a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato on toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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