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...Lonely Place (Columbia) is a Humphrey Bogart melodrama that seems to take forever getting to the point and just about as long driving it home. While marking time, it offers some trite glimpses of life in Hollywood after hours and the over-familiar love story of a hero-heel (Bogart) and a good-bad girl (Gloria Grahame...
...longest stories are the worst. They deal with trite subjects: a paunchy middle-aged business man who goes to a costume party in a leopard skin, and a callow youth who seeks adventure in Parses at night. M. J. Arlen wrote both. His style is drab and plot punch is seriously lacking...
There is a great amount of humor squeezed out of the essentially trite plot of "The Amazing Mr. Beecham." The lines are witty throughout, no words are wasted, and the story is kept from lagging. Though the irrelevant comments of the Earl could be considered the theme or the raison d'etre of the movie, enough social commentary is sprinkled into the dialogue to keep audience interest alive on more than one level...
...know how the ordinary Joe feels about abstractions. Without being patronizing I'd like to be akin, to express what people are feeling. For example, there were 6,000,000 Jews killed in Europe. I'd like to paint about that but not in a trite, illustrative way. I'd like to paint abstractions that will move people...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...