Word: unconvincingness
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If ever a play needed some illegitimate sparkle this is it. The plot is dreary, the dialogue less than brilliant, the social commentary, such as it is, hackneyed, and the melodramatic third act objectively unconvincing. The Tiger and the Horse calls for flamboyant acting and highly imaginative direction. The current...
Ehrenburg is equally vague about himself. He expresses few of his own thoughts, has scarcely any explanation for the abrupt shifts in his career. A confirmed skeptic in the 1920s, he was dubbed "the caraboid," the name of a beetle which ejects a fine stinging spray. In his early novels...
In January, when Volpe announced for the Republican nomination, he focused his attack on Governor Peabody. It was then an issueless campaign, centered on the unconvincing slogan of "Bring Back Volpe," for the ex-Governor privately admires Peabody for his plans for constitutional reform. The rise of Francis Bellotti, however...
When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same way.
But the film's effectiveness fades be cause of an unconvincing plot, more agonized than acted by Susan Strasberg, who appears in a cold-blooded analogue of the Anne Frank role in which she first won fame on Broadway. Cast as a French adolescent, she conceals her Jewish origin...