Word: torment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still talks about his operation. It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
...sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...
...conceivably an obsessed child of Mohamed conceivably a man seized in his declining years by that most dangerous form of satyriasis which longs for naked power alone, Jinnah has beyond question done more than any other man in India to exacerbate the sores of communalism and to tease and torment their rawness; and this purely to secure his nation, and a torn body for India...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
...leaves this film convinced that Mai Zetterling (who recently appeared in the Swedish film Torment) will be worth watching unless the glamorizers ruin her; that Mr. Farrar is a personable leading man; that the makers of this picture meant very well; and that nothing at all revealing, or even particularly real, has happened on the screen...