Word: well-meant
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...exciting to hear anti-Semitism discussed openly in a movie. But the chances are that this well-meant film will exasperate at least as many anti-Semites as it dissuades. It is gruesome to watch such a character as that played by Robert Ryan. But his hatred is so extravagant that most semiconscious anti-Semites will just comfortably set themselves apart from...
...well-meant campaign to boost their own fast-growing film industry, many of London's critics have long been inhospitable to Hollywood exports. Last week, even before he had arrived in London, they told Walt Disney there was no room. "I am getting quite sick," wrote the Daily Herald's Chanticleer, "of all the publicity about Disney and his team of whimsical technicians, sailing here on the Queen Elizabeth...." When Snow White's creator finally arrived, Britain's press was waiting at a lavish combination cocktail party and press conference at the Savoy, paid...
...These well-meant words were like a wistful echo: this was in effect, what Harry Truman had said when he first undertook the office that had proved too much...
...Local self-government will be encouraged. But no amount of well-meant gloss could conceal the remaining, fundamental area of disagreement...
...picture might have been better if a priest known as Big Mike (Alan Hale) were not required to argue the validity of its title so often with the doubting colonel (Dennis Morgan), who has faith only in himself. Between these well-meant but not very convincing religious dialogues, however, there is a good deal of swift and explosive air combat, about as exciting as such material can hope to be, after it has been filmed so well and so often. A California-trained, English-speaking Japanese ace named Tokyo Joe (Richard Loo) adds a novel note of hatred by gritting...