Word: triteness
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...like her. Coming after two acts of cascading turbulence, this plot resolution is woefully inadequate and incongruous, rather like tracing the source of Niagara to a water pistol. There are other weaknesses. The play is needlessly long (3¼ hours), repetitious, slavishly, sometimes superficially Freudian, and given to trite thoughts about scientific doom...
...tale is trite enough, but it is written and directed with humor and warmth, and it seems to say something important to millions of moviegoers in Britain, where the film is currently breaking box-office records. As the hero. Actor Bates (of Broadway's Look Back in Anger and The Caretaker) develops a penetrating study of a man's man who is fundamentally a mother's boy. As the heroine, Actress Ritchie is the golden-haired brass-brained tintype of the sort of girl men always look at twice but only take out once...
...giving them what for in five sharps and never mind the broken windows. Jolly good show. But is it anything more than a show? How deep are Jacko's principles rooted? Before the hot words are cool on his tongue, destiny asks him the trite but inevitable and possibly decisive question: Would you want your daughter to marry a Negro...
...whole gamut of situations in Finney's cinematic odyssey is trite. There is the alley beat-up, the married woman knock-up, the beerhall cut-up and three henpecked husbands. At the end our hero ambles into the smoggy milltown sunset holding hands with a nice girl. It's all warmed over, but it tastes fine. Whether fishing on the proverbial riverbank or visiting his friendly neighborhood abortionist, Finney is obviously looking for a way to understand (and like) his life...
...tale is trite, the script clumsy, and the camera work grossly faked. Though the lovers wander all over Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame turns up in the background practically everywhere they go, almost as if it were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like...