Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing of the first and second lines, in those parts of the game which were played under the Marquis of Queensbury rules, was superb, and had the game continued according to its early promise, it might well have proved a rout. In the first thirty minutes, the Crimson was well co-ordinated, fast, and elusive, and it completely outplayed...
...tortoise pace the plot progresses to its long-expected solution. But though you implore acceleration, though you cannot respond sympathetically to the problems, you will be deeply impressed with Muni's superb performance. He utters perhaps too many "Dio Mio's," but the warmth and understanding which he brings to the role of the Italian-American wine producer are unsurpassed. He spends the entire second act in bed, recuperating from two broken legs. His gestures and facial expressions, worthy of pantomime, carry not only that act, but the whole play. I found myself waiting impatiently for his return each time...
Olivia DeHaviland's performance as the mentally sick girl is superb. Almost the entire credit for the success of the film must go to her acting. She shows the torments and confusion of the girl in the early symptoms of trouble, in the depths of her madness, and then when the signs of improvement and eventual recovery come. She handles the difficult job of reflecting mental states so well that the doctor does not have to say that she is improving...
...true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing...
...Director. Producer-Director Litvak, a strong believer in psychoanalysis, tells his story with great simplicity and sympathy. There are times when the simplicity verges on the obvious. But his best scenes are superb. The finest, based mostly on Litvak's observations in the asylums he visited, is laid in the "disturbed" ward. There, amid the weirdly unrestrained babble, the camera makes its way from figure to figure: the girl who slinkily dances about in a pathetic imitation of an evening gown, the woman crouched praying on the floor, the girl with the Ana Pauker haircut pleading "in the name...