Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angel Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...
...Wives' Tale...
...filming this sad tale, Ben Hecht intelligently cut costs and also sharpened his effects by hiring eager newcomers and first-rate but not too expensive veterans whose capacity for hard work matched his own. Chief weakness of George Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...
Ivan & Spencer. In The Pursuit of Love, Author Mitford draws the political stings from most of these flesh & blood characters, remodels them into a charmed family circle that is as sparkling and daft as a fairy tale. In addition to a lovely heroine who does just what the title suggests, Pursuit stars one of contemporary fiction's best-loved character types-a father who combines the behavior of Ivan the Terrible with the heart of Spencer Tracy...
...host to the Old Vic) had started Shaw's Pygmalion on its longest run; and Katharine Cornell had for the fourth time shined up Shaw's Candida. There was a double scoop of Shakespeare, too: Maurice Evans' brisk G.I. Hamlet and an agreeable Winter's Tale...