Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note, however, that this kind of wonder boy-acrobat character seems to have a fatal attraction for journalists. You would think that the American public demanded, not bread, but circuses from its intellectuals...
Bouncily directed by Robert Siodmak, and photographed in Technicolor against real Italian settings. The Crimson Pirate turns out to be great fun. Lancaster, a onetime circus acrobat, bounds from balconies and cliffs, fights his enemies with fists, swords and belaying pins, swims under water, and swings from the ship's rigging with the greatest of ease. All in all, he makes a good claim to being the successor to Douglas Fairbanks as the screen's most athletic swashbuckler...
...Hollywood. Equipped with collapsible legs and an elastic face which he contorted into caricatures of exasperation, bewilderment, bliss or imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he left a Shakespearian stock company to travel with a circus as clown, acrobat and animal trainer. He came to the U.S. in 1908, rose from burlesque to become one of Ziegfeld's top comedians (Sally in 1920), later went to Hollywood, where he made scores of strenuous two-reelers...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 37, carnival acrobat turned cinema tough guy (The Flame and the Arrow, The Killers) and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 34: their fourth child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Joanna Mari. Weight...
Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in Technicolored medieval Lombardy...