Word: unconvincingness
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In the title story, the Old Man of the Sea is played by an extraordinarily antic marriage broker who enmeshes a young rabbinical student as thoroughly as Susskind did Fidelman. The Mourners tells of a gross landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The...
Unconvincing Witnesses. During Scott's eleven-week trial, the defense produced witnesses who testified that they had seen Evelyn Scott after May 16, 1955. Apparently none of this testimony convinced the jurors: after deliberating for 29 hours they found L. Ewing Scott guilty of first-degree murder. Two days...
Indonesia's usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government's reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands' vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally...
The very Catholic exposition involves a waif who is left before the gates of a Franciscan monastery, is taken in by the monks, strikes up a friendship with a crucifix in the attic and is apotheosized at age five in a very unconvincing sequence as Marcelino Pan y Vino.
In making its turbid case for the golden rule, this film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to...