Word: slobs
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...still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars. "Why don' you be like Rosanna?" And Gioia tells him fiercely...
Also Ice Picks. Al had earned the honor. A murderous, grasping and illiterate slob, he had thwarted the law for 40 years, twisted the politics, and opened the economic veins, of the greatest city in the world. He had done it, at bottom, simply by killing people, personally and by proxy, with ice picks, knives, pistols, the garrote and the bludgeon...
...pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario spins lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue: Will Airman Taylor permit himself to be airborne long enough to lug a trunkful of British banknotes out of a frozen sterling area? It seems an easy way to pick...
...roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...
...sharp eye, they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen, has succeeded for once in carrying off his slobbing with significance...