Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bordered by obstructions, Russell Wright had come off better than anyone had a right to expect. He had also figured in the first of eight serious U.S. airline crashes (five of them fatal) since last August that could definitely be charged to mechanical failure. Weather was the No. 1 villain in all the rest...
Starting with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale...
...acting is very school-playish and melodramatic, with only George Saunders, in the role of the villain, a Hitler-like tyrant controlling the duchy of "Lichtenburg," showing to good advantage. He does remarkably well with cruddy material...
Offered a job by the contractor, Cagney is made the stooge for the firm's corruption, goes to jail for five years. Out again he rejoins his wife, and when the contractor appears for emergency dentistry with his strawberry consort, Cagney plans to bump the villain off with dentist's gas. But on seeing the jaded pair, Cagney realizes that he has had very much the best of life. So he merely rips out the contractor's tooth-without...
...Brown. Raymond Massey, lately of Illinois, resurrects the fire-eating disciple of Jehovah and the Boston Abolitionists with superb artistry. And, as is usual with any experienced actor, Mr. Massey pilfers the picture from such amiable hams as Errol Flynn and Ronald Regan. Of course, John Brown is the villain of the piece and yet Abolition is a Good Thing. The gyrations that the script goes through to prove that it does not advocate slavery are acrobatic to say the least. Everything turns out all right in the end, though, with everybody getting married except Brown. He gets hung...