Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographic touches employed throughout the movie provide pleasant diversions from the frequently trite techniques used by Hollywood. Skillful treatment of the beach scenes and the close-ups of Andruseu framed by amusement park fixtures add much to the film. In all, The Little Fugitive is a fine movie about a child-seldom sentimental and often humorous. It deserves the places it has been winning on 1953's "Ten Best" lists...
...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...
...children. When the thief shrewdly steals the money back, the whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible hiding place--first for the money and then for himself. Since the film's humor and poignancy rests with the actions and grimaces of the performers, the trite English dialogue and amateurish delivery is but a slight deterrent to the whole effect...
...writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely what makes it over-familiar in terms of adolescence...
Meet Mr. McNutley (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Academy Award Winner Ray (The Lost Weekend) Milland as the absent-minded professor at a women's college. The characterizations are trite, and most of the action is warmed-over slapstick. Milland's fine talent for light comedy is pretty well smothered. (Sponsor: General Electric...