Word: villainized
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...almost everyone looked believable in the part, with Margnerito Willauer outstanding as the heroine, Oriane. She displayed a voice of gorgeous tone, rich and exciting, and used it with considerable dramatic skill; Adele Milhendler also deserves equally warm praise for her performance. Edward Zambara was as satisfactory looking a villain as one is likely to see, but his clear diction was somewhat spoiled by a thick American accent. It was evident that the pronunciation in general was carefully worked over, but even so the words were difficult to grasp. John Patterson, as the hero Amadis, was the only character...
...World Peace Council is like Uncle Toms Cabin without the bloodhounds. The hero is very good and patient, the villain is very villainous, the audience knows just when to cheer and when to hiss. Last week the World Peace Council opened in Berlin with the regular cast (not a road company...
...neither on its own terms nor on Melville's is Bitty Budd completely satisfying. It suffers from a need for merely life-sized motivations and actions: the rattan-raising, crew-terrorizing Claggart is too conventional a villain; the Captain is too ordinary a disciplinarian.The play also suffers from that iron law of stages, the 11 o'clock curtain. For two acts it stirs in a good deal of miscellaneous material, from a comically brief sea fight to a farcical midshipman out of Mister Roberts...
About half the picture is devoted to needling its heroes into taking the law into their own hands. The movie keeps the action going at full tilt and draws on such acting talent as Macdonald Carey (Jesse), Wendell Corey (Frank James) and Ward Bond (the Yankee villain). Moviegoers who find glorified hoodlums hard to stomach, even at a safe historical distance, may suspect that Hollywood is almost ready for a film biography treating Al Capone-played, say, by Alan Ladd-as the innocent butt of a spiteful internal-revenue...
...plenty of guns and keeps them smoking; it spurs its horses vigorously over a well-traveled, well-Technicolored course. The picture rises a bit above the level of the standard western by dint of some dabs of humor and Actor Cochran's performance as a dull-witted second villain who takes a gleeful pride in his dastardly work...