Word: villainous
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Rickover had graduated from the Submarine School at New London, Conn., and spent three of his seagoing years as a peacetime submarine officer. Well he knew the "pigboats" and well he knew that hated villain, the storage battery, that each submarine carries in its belly. When a submarine dives (as it must in action), all it has for propulsion is electric motors turned by the limited energy stored in the battery...
...yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note in his performance is his being outwitted by the hero at the play...
...Frollo, the warped High Justice, Sir Cedric Hard wicke is the menacing, sadistic, downright despicable villain he should be. But Edmond O'Brien in the role of the young poet Gringoire is a little too enthusiastic and shallow when he shouts about the destruction of a printing press, "Its home you may destroy, but not its spirit...
...Fury (Columbia) is an oater which manages to suggest that, underneath, it is an allegory about the international situation-or perhaps even about the whole human condition. One minute it sounds like any other he-went-thataway scenario, and the next minute the hero and the villain are murking around in long words about good & evil...
...villain (Phil Carey) finally sprays a little lead around and rides off with the struggling heroine (Donna Reed). The hero (Rock. Hudson) gallops in pursuit, joined by the villain's brother (Leo Gordon) and an Indian who is never really explained. They corner the rat at last, but not before he gets the heroine alone in a bedroom and, as the synopsis puts it, "has his way with...