Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think all foreign movies are good, go see this one and be disillusioned. "L'Affaire" is as trite, heavy-handed, and contrived as the worst of domestic productions...
...been and others that are derivative and clumsy. But Jones has to his credit one of the rarest of talents: a gift for realistic dialogue that looks convincing in print. Dialogue demands much more than an ear like a tape-recorder; the most carefully-reproduced speech looks contrived and trite unless it is edited and formalized. Jones produces nearly 600 pages of conversation with hardly a false note...
Justice Holmes was a colorful man, and his writings had a granite power to them. "The Magnificent Yankee" is a string of anecdotes straining for the color. The punch lines of these anecdotes are generally pretty trite ("In any battle ... fight like hell.") This life of Holmes centers mostly on his paternal attitude towards the "bright young Harvard scamps" who were his secretaries, and on his walks through various parks in the spring. It misses the flavor of both Holmes the man and Holmes the jurist...
...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...