Word: ullman
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...characters found in nature and the hardships they suffered when their native land wouldn't work for them: the deprivations of the emigrants' ship, and the bounty of their new country. Of course, Troell placed two fine actors in his lead roles--May son Sydow and Liv Ullman...
...harsh, the people poor and desperate. In the early 1850s a group of Swedes from the province of Smaland pack their few belongings and emigrate to America in hope of a better life. There, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) stakes out a fine farm for himself, his wife (Liv Ullman) and family in the Minnesota woods...
There is a distant quality about The Emigrants, a kind of intangible emotional reserve. The cast is superb; there are surely no better film actors in the world than Von Sydow and Ullman. But the director cannot make us feel the desperation and the destinies of his characters. Elia Kazan's America, America was not so elaborate or well sustained as The Emigrants, but Kazan's film had the impact of personal experience. The Emigrants has the accumulation of exquisite detail and close observation; it lacks intensity...
...Kenneth Ullman and Robert Groh base their warning on studies of 36 patients who came to the Washington Hospital Center emergency room in a disoriented, schizoid state. Urinalysis revealed that ten of the patients had been taking nonprescription sleeping pills, and the doctors have little doubt that scopolamine, a key ingredient in many such preparations, was responsible for their psychotic behavior. Seven of the patients had intentionally overdosed themselves with up to 50 pills in attempts at suicide. Most improved when given injections of physostigmine salicylate, a drug that counteracts scopolamine...
...having a dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John Gielgud, Peter Finch, Sally Kellerman and Liv Ullman, Ingmar Bergman's most famous female star...