Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Boyer, who is at once a master of schmalz and a very good actor, gives the picture such tone and unity as it has. Miss Bergman occasionally breaks loose with an eager bit of acting, but it is seldom persuasive. As an international tramp, she is as badly miscast as Boyer would be as an All-America fullback; and she is as tactlessly gowned as she is cast...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...Orchids was about U.S. gangsters, all right. British Author Rene Raymond, whose bestseller of the same title had sold a million copies, had never been to the U.S. He had, however, read a lot of U.S. pulps, and his dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the movie: "Look, Fenner, don't put the squeak into Slim." "Ya, I'd like to plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish...
...only runneth o'er but is several times refilled. Sensational in spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble is that Playwright Paul knows what he is writing about but not how to write about it. His touch is coarse, his method tedious, his tone didactic; the play becomes a kind of Pilgrim's Progress of drink...
...more people than in the other operas. Other G & S works have more credible plots and more consistently good lyries, but "The Mikado," with no conspicuous weaknesses, is primarily a good show. The acting, the sets, and the orchestra, with impeccable English good taste, fit themselves to the tone of the production, a necessary condition for Gilbert and Sullivan...