Word: wistfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RIO GRANDE - Harvey Fergusson - Knopf ($3). Time moves fast in the U. S., but in the Southwest it goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son...
Unfortunately, when this straightforward burlesque starts the film is half over. Earlier and duller footage develops a love affair between Roulien, an Argentinian with a heavy boulevard manner, and wistful Gloria Stuart. Best of the numerous songs he sings about her is called "I'll Build a Nest." Funniest...
Efforts to dress up the theme-by such touches as this or by having Jamil take himself a shade less seriously than the old sheiks used to do-help, not to modernize the picture, but to give it a certain wistful charm. The memory of Rudolph Valentino is still green...
The bricks of Boston smile with a certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his...
Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where...