Word: villainizing
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...Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...
...Spiral Staircase. Dorothy McGuire, and how the villain pursues her (TIME...
Died. Noah Beery, 63, veteran villain of stage & screen, elder brother of Cinemactor Wallace Beery; after a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...realism, is heightened by the wide variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini. Instead, they...
...villain of the piece, for some reason, seemed to be store-clothed Harry Truman. Although it was not the President's fault that the millers, who had once taken so much pride in their patterns, were unwilling to clothe low-grade flour in the same finery, he had started the trouble. And the prospects were devastating. The Pillsbury Flour Co.'s Dallas manager sighed: "They used to say that when the wind blew across the South you could see our trade name on all the girls' underpants. Now they'll all read EMERGENCY...