Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Villain Still Pursued Her" is second on the bill but is its first, and sole, attraction. It is solid, old-fashioned stuff with explanatory asides and soliloquies and even a moral. Anita Louise makes a lovely flower of innocence, but the big black villain (Alan Mowbray) steals the show (his attempts to steal Anita are foiled in time...
...themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until the gun finally drops from the villain's luckless hand. Good shot: the Dalton gang, fully mounted, jumping from a speeding train...
...right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
...sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...
...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...