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...trying, though successful, experience: "It was more tricky and full of pitfalls than anything I have ever attempted as an actor." Hutson and Lewis, as Elyot and Amanda, are a sharp, strong, and attractive duo who avoid most of Coward's worst pitfalls--abysmal dialogue, kitschy scenes, and trite psychology--and maximize Coward's well hidden strengths--the parody of English manners and social institutions, the art of verbal thrust and counterthrust, the sharp criticism of women's roles in society. Consider a typical Coward "life-line": "If there's one thing in the world that infuriates...
...ending is trite and contrite. He presents her with a length of calico and a new stove. She presents him with twins. It may not be too late to make this marriage work, but Zandy's conversion from misogyny to generosity of spirit comes far too late to save the film...
...Angry Men [1957]. Henry Fonda and a bunch of excellent character actors in a tribute to the reason of man, the primacy of law, and all that. The message may be trite, but this is a terrific film to watch unfold. Ch. 56, 8 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...fairy tale allied itself with other types of mass culture that saved it from cuteness and trite morality throughout the Victorian era. It never joined forces with another persistent and repressed literary genre, pornography--which this book terms "the ultimate cultural ghetto"--but it did identify with "vulgar" elements like spiritual mediums, Nursery nonsense and thrillers...
...Somewhat trite and rhetorical comments indeed, to describe the national trauma left in the wake of the Watergate scandals. But these words from a moderate upstate New York Republican congressman represent the sort of thinking that very well may have Richard Nixon standing trial before the Senate by mid-summer...