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Marjorie (a splendid and riveting performance by Farrah Fawcett) narrowly avoids being assaulted in her car by vicious serial rapist Joe (superbly played with frightening conviction and intensity by James Russo).
Though the opinionated ideas of morality so strongly presented in Tenant seem outdated by today's standards, the story is imbued with integrity, passion, and conviction which still make an impact.
However, his conviction is doubted by Capt.
The film is actually about the media circus that took place around the case, the way Australians interpreted what was presented in the media, and the lynch mob mentality that ultimately led to the woman's conviction, based on barely any hard evidence.
Under the circumstances, why then should they take their frustrations out on an anonymously unsuspecting and innocent Kansas family?.. Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) plays the prosecuting attorney who is sickened by this act of macabre capriciousness!! His argument is thoroughly convincing... His contention being: "These two men who demonstrated no mercy are now asking for yours" This is a line of logic which would induce me to render a verdict of a conviction if I were to be one of the members of the jury!! Absolute disdain for your precarious plight in life does not serve as vindication for orchestrating a capital crime!!
She can't know why the Rosenbergs chose to die rather than betray political beliefs, friends, and their nearly religious conviction that Socialism was humankind's only hope.
According to commentary said noise was supplied by the unappreciated in our time Jay mewesey mewes but delivered with such conviction that i use it as my answerphone message on my cell.
Tracy McMahon plays a small role at the beginning of the movie with utter conviction, flawlessly transforming from confident undergrad to crushed patient in a classroom demonstration.
There's no greater pain than the loss of one's child, and Garcia conveys this with heartrending conviction.
He got dead cow eyes, he's unable to say a line with conviction,well i don't have enough words in English to tell you how Titoff is bad!
-SOME SPOILERS- Without giving it all away, Ann Margret's character lies her way into a murder conviction just because she wants to get her abusive, alcoholic boyfriend put in jail too.
This is honestly a cinematic masterpiece composed from pure sincerity and conviction.
This is one of the few films where even Bobby Deol isn't able to play his part with conviction.
I only have a few things to say about the film itself and then a personal conviction about Park as a director.
As for Collins, she performs with conviction; hopefully she cashed a paycheck somewhat larger than these ants.
In fact, with Shutter and Dorm, I'll say that Thai movies are beginning to play better than most Hollywood cash cows, but then Ghost Game came along and destroyed my conviction.
Leigh plows through all the silliness as if it really means something--as if her life depended on it--but her conviction in being the ultimate square peg says more about the actress than this character ever gets to express.
The same can be said for Pleasance who also plays a bad man with such conviction.
He displays confusion and fear with great conviction and a fantastic pinch of comedy.
Caroline Monroe ,who plays Miss Collins freind, does so with all the conviction and talent that propelled her to the very bottom of the acting tree.
But they lack the conviction to go with what their gut says.
They lack the conviction to make cinema.
Concerning the Manhattan prep and deb season of some unspecified year past, "Metropolitan" transports your mind into a social order that exists just beyond our consciousness: where young socialites discuss Fourier without conviction, Jane Austen without having read her work, and love without never having really been in it.
This film has a very open ending - just as in the true case upon which the film is based you don't know whether or not Madeleine killed her lover, as the jury renders a uniquely Scottish verdict of "not proved" which splits the difference between outright acquittal and conviction.
Unusually constructed around three separate lengthy flashbacks of past associates (a director, actress and writer, played by Barry Sullivan, Lana Turner and Dick Powell) of boy-genius Jonathan Shields (a composite, perhaps of David O Selznick and Orson Welles) played with total conviction and no little vigour by an emergent Kirk Douglas, these serve to lay bare, warts and all, his larger than life character by the conclusion, leaving the viewer to decide for themselves whether this golden boy with feet of clay is deserving of our admiration or derision.
He speaks his poignant lines with conviction... Bette Davis shows her dreamy side and this film, and it's just as compelling as her bitchy aspect... and Bogart, well, this is the first film in which he really IS "Bogart".
It just came naturally, because their ideas and opinions were fueled with passion and conviction.
Price's conviction and Fuller's straightforward direction somehow make this preposterous tale ring true (many of the basics are correct, though Fuller certainly over-dramatizes the later confrontations between Reavis and the government with its allies the homesteaders that the Baron is trying to steal from).
It tells the story of the courage and conviction of Romeo Dallaire; qualities he possesses to an extent that surpasses what most of us can only imagine.
Yet, the minute the actors start speaking, it loses vitality, conviction, and interest.
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