Word: spicier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner, which offered Johnny Belinda as a gamy rape story and Treasure of Sierra Madre as a film in which "women sold their souls," now hints pretty broadly of something sexy in The Hasty Heart. Adapted from John Patrick's 1945 Broadway hit, the film deals with nothing spicier than the last days of a proud, lonely Scottish soldier who is dying in a British army hospital in Burma. What makes the picture good-and the advertising trick twice as shabby-is its success in recapturing the play's disarming mixture of tart humor and genuine pathos...