Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevsky" is in many ways a strange, absorbing picture, but as Russian propaganda its effect is-mainly comical. It goes back to the Thirteenth Century, when Russia was menaced by a medieval German army, and concerns the over-whelming victory of the Russians under their hero, Nevsky. Though the tale is told as simply and as powerfully as an epic, there is much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows...
Cried the U.S.'s Herschel Johnson: "So . . . the innocent little Slavic-Albanian brothers . . . are menaced by this wicked fascist Greek wolf. It is curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash...
...King James Version. "Now, I don't want any of you lugs referrin' to Benny as a murderer. I know his story. Got it from the D.A. Now, he's gonna tell it to the Gremlin Court." Benny folded his arms and told the Gremlins his tale. After an hour and a half of questions from the court, Benny passed the stiff admittance test and became a Gremlin himself...
...steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The Yearling" suffers from none of the normal vices. The inscious, wooded setting is portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began to eat the crops now that he has grown up, the superb restraint of the parents makes the scene a really moving...
That seems to be the sum of this tale of sound and fury, and if it weren't written and acted by idiots, it would seem a lot more real, and a lot less fun. Scene the Best: Laughton, fawningly in love, tries to show wifey he's the strongest man in the kingdom, and takes on a wrestler, only to beat him, and then have to be carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome...