Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Montgomery scored with a taut production of Robert Wallace's The Long Way Home, starring John Beal as a Connecticut commuter stricken with a heart attack as his train pulls out of Grand Central Terminal. What gripped the viewer, as it did the readers of the original LIFE story, was Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop who thought that Beal was drunk...
...Viewer. In Milwaukee, Robert W. Sump was fined $100 for reckless driving, despite his explanation to the cops who chased him at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. that he: 1) did not hear their sirens or see their flashing warning lights; 2) merely overlooked one traffic light and four highway stop signs; 3) failed to notice that he was driving the wrong way up a one-way street...
...uncertain whether it is a comedy or a morality play. The sobriety sometimes seems to call for a conscious moral judgment, but the frivolity of its characters does not merit one. In spite of this ambiguity, there is enough of Fernandel at his best to reward the patient viewer...
...careful selection the Museum exhibit doesn't overawe the viewer and, at the same time, it provides new points of view from which to re-evaluate a great master...
...Ponder Heart belongs to a village idiot who is milked for laughs. The laugh content is perhaps too high, for the sensitive viewer chokes with indignation at the ponderous, and heartless treatment of old Dan Ponder. At the Shubert...