Word: trite
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...Todd gives such an insipid performance, it is difficult to believe that the could murder anything. A New Yorker, played with incredible shallowness by Ruth Roman, decides to prove this after their very first encounter. Their personalities undergo a radical change every ten minutes, and every change is more trite than the one before. The result is no personality...
Hydie, the conventtrained, divorced daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, finds Fyodor irresistible; he seems to her the only man of will, purpose and direction in sight. The rest are just silly Americans, broken refugees and ridiculous Paris intellectuals who bicker endlessly over brandies in trite dialectical lingo...
Director John Cromwell treats this trite subject matter in an unimaginative way, with the result that the picture rarely seems realistic, despite the fine acting of Miss Greer. At many points, the plot is crippled by weak dialogue. When Miss Scott asks the parole board to return her rival's civil liberties so she can marry the newsman; she says, "Please give her back her civil liberties." Small wonder that the answer...
...alternating sequences, Lieut. Commander Wayne tries to sink enemy ships and salvage his duty-wrecked marriage with burning-eyed Navy Nurse Patricia Neal. Actor Wayne's flinty authority as a man of action crumbles under the trite situations and dialogue ashore. For comic relief, the picture rings in the disheveled aftermath of the enlisted men's shore leave, a scene that plays much better where it played earlier, in Broadway's Mister Roberts...
...chance of salvation, is the whole cause of his collapse. Seeing the wife as the enemy, the director mercilessly upbraids and insults her until he learns the truth (which includes his being in love with her). After that, the play dribbles on, nursing the sort of comeback that is trite on the stage and untenable...