The Shrike (Universal-International), adapted from Joseph Kramm's coldly furious Pulitzer Prizewinning play (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), is both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled men.
A black-masked...
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