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They thought they saw the villain-Eastern capital, which, they said, wanted to keep the West shorn of power, reduced to a mere producer of raw materials for the industrial East. Said Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell: "If the East looks on the West as an insignificant colony, it's certainly time ... to make known the united power of the West...
...strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might be a demagogue or a statesman, and the man hanging might be a villain or a hero. The people must listen because they can do nothing else...
...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...
Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for voluntary price reductions with piddling action to date. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray accused industrialists of "actual racketeering" and "organized robbery...
...customary in Boston, there is another picture on the evening's program, and, strangely enough, it isn't bad at all. Called "Blind Spot" and featuring Chester Morris, it is a psychological murder mystery of unusual quality, at least for the B-picture category. Although the villain's identity is hardly much of a secret after the first reel, dialogue, direction, and photography must place "Blind Spot" far, far above the great majority of its class--better, perhaps, than a good number that pass as first-run productions in these lean times...