Word: thunderingly
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...mellow voice swung low to squeeze a tear, lifted lightly to pick off a laugh, soared high with holy indignation. "In this crusade," cried Bill Alexander, as background music from a choir swelled behind him, "I see the magnificent march of the living God and I hear the thunder of His feet." He meant that he was running for the Senate against the Democrats' quiet, able Congressman Mike Monroney...
Publisher Hecht has had only one resounding flop. Nine years ago, in an effort to stem the tide of blood & thunder comic books ("I won't publish stuff like that"), he brought out True Comics to tell the stories of great men and great deeds. True Comics made a poor showing against its hardboiled, blood-spilling brethren, and Hecht recently dropped it. In Children's Digest, he hopes to put over the idea in a slightly different way. Said hopeful Parent Hecht: "We think we can build the Digest...
Original and perceptive camera work helps to knit together "Thunder Rock's" disorganized incidents; so does some unobtrusive and sensitive music. And the flashbacks themselves are wonderfully paced and staged and acted, showing the careful attention to detail that has turned up in so many subsequent English films. Michael Redgrave, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, and the whole group of minor characters are mutually responsible for the fine quality of the acting. "Thunder Rock" has an unhappy pre-disposition to preach, but it is so well-finished that it gets away with...
...have until Thursday to see one of the best movies to come out of Europe. It is "Thunder Rock," a ten-year-old importation from England; what makes it so good is its facility in handling fantasy...
...Thunder Rock" centers on a disillusioned newspaperman who has shut himself up as a lighthouse keeper, believing he can no longer be useful to a world headed for war. He has peopled the terrible isolation of his job with the long-dead victims of a shipwreck on the rock; the has taken their names from an old log-book, and given them substance in his mid. He talks and moves and lives with these people; through a series of flashbacks he mentally reconstructs the events which brought them onto the pitching Lake packet. These flashbacks, with their imagined characters interacting...