Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious films ever give their saints and martyrs more than a light brush-off in technicolor and extravagance. Monsieur Vincent, a French film produced in 1948, is a notable exception. With the subtle acting of Pierre Fresnay and the excellent photography of Claude Renoir, the film pictures the life of Saint Vincent de Paul simply and movingly...
...performance were the sole standard, Monsieur Vincent might be comparable to Martin Luther. But the life of de Paul, at least as the film presents it, lacks the dramatic struggles and soul-searchings which Luther experienced. The good Saint begins as a priest called to help the poor, and ends with the same firm dedication. The events of his life, significant because they deepen his insight into the grislier side of poverty, seem obscurely connected. For a biographical film, this is probably the more realistic approach, since few men lead lives which come to a climax in the third...
...year-old gelding. Royal Tan is Irish-bred, owned, trained and ridden. His owner is J. H. Griffin, a 36-year-old candymaker from Templeogue, near Dublin. His jockey was a redhead named Bryan Marshall, who was born in Tipperary and raised in Limerick. His trainer was Vincent O'Brien from Tipperary...
...Cherry Lane Theater (capacity 200) has a mildly successful play in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Wise Have Not Spoken. "Business is 100% over last year's," says one Cherry Laner. "They have begun to take off-Broadway seriously...
...seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung...