Word: villainizing
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...reputation, goes about it with an ingenuous bravado that soon turns him from hunter into hunted. Along the way he becomes involved with a sardonic major of the British military police (Trevor Howard) who had hunted his friend, a melancholy actress (Valli) who had loved him, and, finally, the villain (Orson Welles), a gladhanding, cynical American...
...serious lines she gets to speak sound like a bad burlesque of Mae West. But she puts over her songs, mostly such oldtimers as It Had to Be You, with vigorous good humor. Macdonald Carey appears to be wisely conserving his energies for more important assignments. If expert villain Luther Adler had had more to do, he might have stolen the whole show before Shelley had a chance to sing her numbers and get kicked off the island...
Young Blaise de Lallière ("There's promise in him . . . Like France") never cold-shoulders a villain's challenge, never flinches in his dedicated task: foiling a 16th Century Bourbon plot against the Valois crown. He rides up & down the countryside, carrying messages and giving chase to enemy agents, almost loses his life when he falls for a comely English wench over from London to spy on King Francis (her eyes "expressed a contradiction of emotion: gaiety and daring, with an undercurrent of sadness"). But when the rebel trap is sprung, Blaise bares his steel and redeems...
Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
...uranium compounds (not the fissionable U-235) to Russia in the spring of 1943 before the Manhattan Project "cut off all sources of uranium material." But Jordan's story was of shipments occurring in 1944. Meanwhile Broadcaster Lewis kept the pot boiling by throwing in another prospective villain. He charged that Henry Wallace was the official who had overruled General Groves's protest and insisted that atomic materials be sent to the Russians. Snapped Wallace: "Sheerest fabrication...