Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between Yesterday & Tomorrow.After two shivering weeks in London (his British clothing points did not stretch to an overcoat), Auriol was flown to Algiers. He was a worried man. Both his wife and their son, Paul, had remained in France, working with the underground...
...belong shows in many ways: she wants to change her name to F. Jasmine Addams (Jarvis and Janice are the couple--Frankie wants her name to begin with "Ja . ." also); she chooses a far too formal dress for the wedding; she tugs at her crew cut hair hoping to stretch it to a more glamorous length...
Most TV-set owners end a long stretch of daytime televiewing with an obscure sense of guilt, as if they had sneaked off to a movie in the middle of a business day. But last week, as millions sat glued to the telecasts of the Manhattan hearings of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, televiewing was for once accompanied by a glowing sense of civic purpose...
These cliffhanging questions, and many more like them, are designed to stretch the situation's rudimentary suspense to the limit. Scripter Dudley Nichols and Director Henry Hathaway misjudge the breaking point. Their intentions quickly grow too transparent, their maneuverings too forced and artificial. In spite of good, sun-baked photography and effective performances by Actress Hayward and Dean Jagger, as a muttering horse thief, Rawhide also suffers because the ringleader of its heavies is played by Hugh Marlowe in the correct, mellifluous accents of a good radio announcer...
...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...