Word: unwound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson unwound after a while, and only an unfortunate fumble kept the score from being 13-6 after a 60-yard sustained drive which had Ray Eder, Paul Garrity, and Bill Henry taking turns in hitting the tackles and sweeping the ends for steady gains
...hastily changed from a Martinique bordello to a gambling casino. In Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line of tedium...
Last week, in a Brooklyn courtroom, at the Government's spy trial, the testimony unwound the story of two worlds in conflict...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...