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Hatch, Robert | December 29, 1956 issue

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The author has a notion that the film "Baby Doll" is a rather dirty picture, but he hesitates to say so in the wake of Cardinal Speilman's dogmatic statement that it is every citizen's patriotic and moral duty to shun the film. The author's objection, however, is that its dirtiness consists in the fact that it only teases with sex. The picture is largely drawn from the one-act play "27 Wagons Full of Cotton." Theme aside, "Baby Doll" is an extremely well-made picture. Elia Kazan has directed it with tight-focused intensity. Working almost exclusively in and around a ruined mansion on the outskirts of Benoit, Mississippi, he produces an atmosphere of hunger and heat, danger, revulsion and futility.

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BABY Doll (Film); KAZAN, Elia; SEX in motion pictures; MOTION pictures; BENOIT (Miss.); MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States
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