Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject matter in less skilled hands could become sloppy and sentimental. The Brave One completely escapes these pitfalls, handling the boy-and-animal-against-the-wicked-world theme most touchingly. Michael Ray is completely fetching as the youth and he is supported by a most competent cast. The air and spirit of the bullring is handled freshly and dramatically, as is an absolutely chilling battle between the black bull and a cougar...
...Brave Ones, then, is a marvelous example of cinema craftsmanship that handles a simple theme extraordinarily well and with a rare artistry, but with few concessions to truth. Co-featured is a nauseous dog-epic with Van Johnson, entitled Kelly...
...Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified...
Gulps & Gambles. Exner had his own ideas of what an automobile should look like. "What I wanted," he says, "was a lean, taut look rather than a static look-a look of thrust. People are used to the dart or wedge-shaped theme. They see it on jet planes, racing cars, big racing boats. I thought people would like them, particularly young people, and the young people would sell their parents." Seeing the designs for the first time one chilly day in November 1954, Chrysler's brass gulped, fretted that they might be too strong for the U.S. public...
...second batch of stories which carry the baptism-by-life theme into young manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...