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...Wrath. Carl Dreyer's somber portrait gallery of witches and nonprofessional evildoers in 17th Century Denmark. Beautifully acted (TIME...
...stepped out for the final 36 holes, his tanned face furrowed, a spectator murmured: "He looks like the wrath of God." Knowing how he hates distractions, Cotton's plump, wealthy wife (daughter of an Argentine cattle baron) followed him at a safe distance. He had a four-stroke lead to protect...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
Stories such as this, which Hawthorne might have written, are seldom written (or read) in our time; they are even more seldom brought to the screen. Producer-Director Carl Dreyer (who made the famed Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928) has filmed Day of Wrath with more than sufficient sobriety, restraint, insight and beauty...
...Wrath is, to be sure, the kind of classical work in which scrupulous care is taken never to exploit a sensation or an emotion. Thus, beautiful as it is, it leaves one relatively cold. Dreyer seems to be more interested in creating motion portraits than drama, but he makes grave and noble drama of his portraits...