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...voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious breath supply with fluid ease, showed an impressive command of Italian, French and German diction, although her English came through with a yawing, Akim Tamiroff drawl. Zara's only lacks: conviction and stage presence...
...time is 1,000 years ago. Rain drums like a dirge on the crumbling ruins of the great temple gate called Rashomon in Kyoto. Huddling in its shadows are three birds of strange omen-a Buddhist priest, a simple woodcutter (Akim Tamiroff) and a cynical wigmaker (Oscar Homolka)-who croak and cluck chorus-fashion about a hideous crime and the baffling trial testimony that followed...
...movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
Nana Ofori Atta II, the paramount chief of Akim Abuakwa. The second most powerful tribal leader in Ghana, Ofori Atta had been declared de-stooled by some of his restive subchiefs. Like many a chieftain before him, he had fallen back on his feudal prerogative and refused to budge. But Nkrumah seized the occasion, moved quickly to back up the subchiefs' decision. The technical charge was that Ofori Atta had refused to leave his palace...
Aboard ship there are no signs of acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World...