Word: villainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted...
...impartial stand, however precarious. The side Britain has chosen is not pro-Israel, but anti-Nasser. Egypt's 38-year-old military ruler, once hopefully regarded by the British-even though he drove them from the Suez-is now in British eyes the Middle East's Villain...
...solution is rich in irony, richer still in its humanity. The hero, when all is said and done, has accepted the pattern. Playwright Serling does not sneer at him, and he does not sneer at the pattern. Big Business is not the villain of Serling's piece. There is no villain. There is only the same big world, and another little man who gets lost...
...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...