Word: unconvincingness
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The leading players, Jackie Cooper and Janis Paige, struggle gamely with the script, but even Lindsay, who has taken third billing, delivers many of the lines in a stuffy and unconvincing manner. It is unfortunate that the return of Cooper, the debut of Miss Paige, and the work of Lindsay...
Julie Haydon does an adequate job in the part of Blanche, the unhappy nymphomanic, until she tries too hard to assume a Southern accent and fails miserably. Norma Connolly, as Blanche's sister Stella Kowalski, a supposedly sympathetic character, is unconvincing at her best and insipid at her worst, but...
Patrick Gordon-Walker, Commonwealth Relations Secretary, replied for the government but his arguments were unconvincing. Said he: "A very difficult case . . . We [must] balance private interests and public will and public good . . . against an African background which is not easy to understand . . . The passing of the motion tonight might have...
We heard stories of five-percenters, deep-freezers, influence peddlers, mink coats, RFC irregularities, cheap and party politics guiding policies of Government offices, influence of gambling interests in high places, and what not. Someone then suggested that the President return home (from Florida) and clean house, whereupon the President, in...
Nevertheless, I Was a Communist falls into a crude pattern, both as melodrama and propaganda. Its exposition of the Communist conspiracy-how the party does Moscow's work in U.S. labor unions, industrial plants, schools, minority groups -is as oversimplified, mechanical and unconvincing as the anti-capitalist preachments of...