Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa, one hot afternoon last week, a 55-year-old Negro, who had gone back to work at the Rath Packing Co. after losing $375 in wages, fired his pistol when a swarm of strikers tried to tip over his tattered Model A Ford. A picket was killed; a woman striker was wounded. The strikers took out their fury on workers' autos. A parking lot fence was ripped down, 27 cars were overturned. Frightened workers stayed in the plant that night, went out next day under protection of Iowa's National Guard...
...Wrath (Carl Dreyer; Schaefer Associates) is a study of the struggle between good & evil, as waged among witches, priests and ordinary people of a 17th Century Danish town. It opens with the quietly horrifying interrogation, torture and burning alive of an old woman who has been denounced as a witch. The rest of this Danish-made picture examines, no less acutely, three souls in torment...
...aging pastor (Thirkild Roose) is suffering because he won his young wife by deceit; he supervises the destruction of the old woman who might have betrayed him. The pastor's son (Preben Lerdorff) is suffering because he has fallen in love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost...
...Woman In White (Warner), Wilkie Collins' mid-Victorian melodrama, has enough plot for a dozen ordinary movies-and a lot too much for one, unless that one is done brilliantly. This production is sound, rather than brilliant. Chunk by chunk it is patiently, intricately wrought and highly polished; but the chunks have to be shoved around like so many massive pieces of Victorian furniture. Those who made the film have taken a pretty good, but no longer very believable book a great deal too seriously. Treated with less respect, it might have been turned into a lively, believable movie...
There are appropriate performances by Sydney Greenstreet as a mesmerist, blackmailer and general mastermind; Agnes Moorehead as his ruined wife; John Abbott as her twitchy brother; John Emery as an assistant scoundrel; and decorative performances by Alexis Smith as the heroine and Eleanor Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...