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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
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205.0. "They Knew What They Wanted" by ESGWST::RDAVIS (Not so genteel as real gentlemen) Wed Jun 02 1993 16:40

    A rare opportunity to see Carole Lombard in a straight dramatic role. 
    She was great.
    
    A not-so-rare opportunity to see Charles Laughton overact.
    
    Plot: Laughton is a stupid noisy lovable Italian immigrant who makes
    wine in Napa Valley and has "gotta fiffateena hunnah dollahs in da
    banco, you betcha".  Lombard is a waitress that he's infatuated with
    and marries, even though she is so bee-youtifool and he is so ugly. 
    Laughton's cynical right-hand man has sex with Lombard.  Everybody
    cries.
    
    The ending sustains a groin injury attempting to simultaneously punish
    the sinful and be uplifting.
    
    Speaking of strain, the movie is worth seeing for Frank Fay's
    horrifying performance as a lovable priest.  Every heartwarming grin a
    flash of shark; every twinkle a down-swung butcher-knife.  Only
    comparable to Klaus "I Eat Your Dog" Kinski's charming scallywag in
    "Fitzcarrado".
    
    Ray
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