Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, this high moment is all the film has, and the picture dwindles away in a continued restating of its central idea. But Actor Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips), in his first movie in four years, scores a minor triumph, and his evocation of an inner glory breaking through a life-beaten man lifts an average movie into a near masterpiece...
...slums and poverty which breed the addicts. It is not a pleasant film, for director Otto Preminger has ground the lens of his camera in the dirt of human degradation, and the audience who follows the descent is left raw and hurt. But there is also a measure of triumph in the picture, since it shows how one addict throws off "the monkey on his back...
...first created, since Preminger made a number of major changes when he adapted the novel for the screen. But they are still strikingly believable, and the new ending of their story does not really harm them. The Man with the Golden Arm remains a powerful document of degradation and triumph...
Southerners will undoubtedly be offended at the play's vision of them--naive, stupid, raucous, and unable to master their own dialect. There is not a Confederate in the cast. Yankee morals triumph, the plantation's only virgin is corrupted, and tradition falls. Northern gag men must sparkle to get away with this; they don't, principally because the comedy has a minimum number of funny lines. Any Jackie Gleason fan can predict virtually every ensuing speech...
Peking to Paris. Fabian recalls that as a young man in 1918 he heard Lenin in Petrograd make the famed speech in which he surveyed the Communist course to world triumph. "The road to Paris leads through Peking, the road to London through New Delhi." The warning he draws is not merely political and military; present also is the moral point that tyranny and injustice anywhere are the enemy of freedom and order anywhere...