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Individual scenes are uncommonly taut, e.g., a drawn-out crisis in the dining room when Garfield insists that the family eat the turkey dinner he has bought, and Ford, driven to a rebellious gesture, seems ready to die before he will let them accept. But what trips He Ran All the Way well before it has run its length is a far-fetched romantic gimmick. It asks the moviegoer to believe that the girl, devoted to her parents and young brother (Bobby Hyatt), is lonely, frustrated and moonstruck enough to plan on running off with the criminal whom...
...packed suitcases and a litter of towels and shaving gear. The pair, police later found, walked off the ship and hired a taxi; one of them asked the driver in flawless French to drive to Rennes at top speed. During the 90-minute ride, the two sat in taut silence; they gave the driver a 5,000-franc note, waited for 500 francs' change, rushed to catch the train to Paris...
...commissars of the NKVD tried to strip his mind and spirit in more systematic ways. How close they came without actually succeeding makes up the chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's top lawyers and political men. Taut, spare, sharply observed and recorded, it is the most convincing account yet of that indigenous Soviet phenomenon, the phony confession. Beside it, even Arthur Koestler's brilliant Darkness at Noon bulges a bit at the suppositional seams...
...make statues look like monuments instead of stone dummies, imparted some of his secret to Artis. The Quiet One (inspired by a documentary movie of the same name about childhood maladjustment in Harlem) is a quiet, beautifully compact monument to a Negro boy who sits withdrawn, miserable and taut with life...
...direction of Fred Zinneman comes up to his high mark in The Search and The Men. He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated...