Word: villainizing
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...Compromise, which is set in "The Canadian North Woods," presents a Jackie Gleason-type Mountie accused of thievery, kidnapping, and bad faith by the lecherous villain who has designs on the Mountie's wife. Hopelessly involved in a tangle of impossible circumstances, the Mountie goes away for five years in his attempt to clear up the wrong-doing. Fickle womanhood weakens, the wife marries the villain, and also "gives half her heart" to the Mountie's best friend. He returns, and in a delightful departure from established custom, the air is cleared only by the intrusion of the puzzled playwright...
...sweeping charm and confidence of the Northwest hero. Janice Thresher, as his ever-dithering wife, does well to play her role completely valiantly, because it is important that she never lapse into obvious contempt for what she is trying to spoof. Joe Hudak's leers, in characterizing the villain, have an ambiguity which cleverly both underscore the mock melodrama and cynically comment on it. His violence and forcefulness have a very convincing feigned ugliness. The part of the author, played by Hugh Amory, is honest, and therefore very incisive and highly amusing. Unfortunately for George Montgomery, an Indian brave...
Adlai Stevenson and other "moderate" Democratic leaders have tried, understandably, to ignore the growing rift between the pro-Negro and anti-Negro wings of the party. Signs now appear that this will be more and more difficult. Adlai Stevenson finds himself cast as a villain by the liberal magazine Frontier, "the Voice of the New West." Cried Frontier last month: "As long as small colored boys can be murdered in Mississippi without protection of the law, Stevenson's moderate approach to reform will strike most Negroes as distressingly inadequate. And Stevenson's frequent trips into the South, along...
There is a villain (Basil Rathbone), a palace witch (Mildred Natwick), a princess royal (Angela Lansbury) and a political poison plot. When the squirrely-burly's done, Jester Kaye has managed to get the false king on his knees, the true one on the throne, the heroine (Glynis Johns) in his arms, the villain on his point, and the audience happily lost in some muddle ages that no history book records...
...watchdog of the Murmansk convoy run. Unlike that long-drawn-out, suspenseful business on the Caine, Ulysses' mutiny has already taken place, and this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal Navy, the mutiny was a lower-deck affair, and the only officer-villain goes overside. It differs from the Caine mutiny in another merciful respect-the characters never get ashore into the arms of sea-fogged...