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Then one day Scobie falls in love with a 19-year-old girl (Maria Schell). Their raptures are brief. The heat, the secrecy, the difference in their ages, the knowing that they can never marry-all these things tell on their nerves. In the end, blackmailed by the villain, who has intercepted a love letter, Scobie is driven to crime in order to protect his wife from the knowledge that he loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Your "get McCarthy" diatribe sounds like Pravda on Trotsky. Such foaming at the mouth! With adjectives, yet! "Snarling," "whined," etc. Clear-eyed, noble liberals and the skulking, beastly villain, right out of stock. Like another Cato, your every issue croaks: "Delenda est McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...villain, he became the U.N.'s No. 1 crowd-puller. He brought a kind of energy to the staid U.N. and many delegates liked to cross swords with him, watch him flail the table with his fists, see the top of his head go pink with anger. Some diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Devil's Advocate | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...alas for Adam's vegetable idyl! The villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Crimson Ghost, the gang leader had a special gimmick that enabled him to electrocute his followers by remote control (their heads disappeared in a blinding flash). Another villain was pushed out a window-his body spread-eagled for maximum shatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Children's Hour | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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