Word: villainous
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...brief narration which opens the film, introducing the sea as the villain, forecasts an epic. What follows, however, is a sprawling documentary, tedious in its length and disinterest in character, but at the same time impressive in picturing the danger and frustration of the corvette's task. With several delicate director's touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy...
...chief villain in the grim playscript was the Vatican. Hour after hour, from a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand, Bishop Kaczmarek, 58, recited indictments of the Catholic hierarchy. "It must be known," he said, "that the Vatican has always been leading an anti-Polish policy." It was hoping to "hand back our territories to Germany" in return for Germany's help in a war against Communism...
...Breaking out of jail to clear his name, Bogarde is hounded through the rubble-strewn ruins by the police and matches wits with skulking black-marketeers. The film fails because its events are too predictable for suspense, its hero and heroine too coldly competent for sympathy, and its villain (Albert Lieven) too inept to generate excitement...
...Roman Catholic Church (she will go to Mexico to try for a church annulment). She spoke warmly about O'Dwyer and professed to be tickled about magazine stories that have pictured him as the hapless pawn of a playgirl: "Every story has a hero and a villain. I am delighted to be the villain in this case, if it'll give him the break he deserves...
...like nothing he has ever done before. His face wears the calm of a man who is completely sure of what he is doing as he plays it straight from Little Italy. And Ernest Borgnine is a Fatso hard to forget. He can smile and smile and be a villain, in a way to make the audience realize that it is in the presence of that perhaps not rarest of humankind, the perfectly normal monster...