Word: villainizing
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...dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous work. Mr. Laughton is the only one who even-struggled...
...Stalin statement was, therefore, far from a grandiose gesture in the direction of solving the cold war. It was a very clever frame-up, and in spite of Secretary Acheson's reasoned reply, it made the United States look like a villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...
While the husband is away in the army, his wife is chased by a slightly mangy wolf (Stewart Granger) full of bad intentions. Gilliat's sympathy for all the people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows...
...thrillers. It common-sensically concedes that a smart cop who knows crimes and criminals could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...
...people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...