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...Again (Columbia) has been done before. In 1937 it was a comedy hit called The Awful Truth. The current remake casts Jane Wyman, Ray Milland and Aldo Ray in the roles originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...
...been playfully running around Manhattan with a specialist in tribal-ritual puberty dances (Valerie Bettis) when he was supposed to have been in Chicago on business. In retaliation, she invents a romance of her own. This leads to divorce proceedings. The trio becomes a foursome when a rich square (Aldo Ray) from the Klondike stakes out a romantic claim on Jane during the interlocutory period of the divorce. All in all, Let's Do It Again strains too hard for its laughs...
...Cines; Italian Film Export) is an Italian-made grab bag of episodes that range all the way from the melodramatic to the slapstick. Based on short stories and a play by late 19th century Italian authors, the picture is held together by a rather flimsy plot device: a bookdealer (Aldo Fabrizi) who skims through tales...
Except for Aldo Fabrizi, who gives a striking performance as the fiercely mustachioed tyrant, the cast consists entirely of amateurs. Francis and his fellow friars are played by Franciscan monks of the Nocere Inferiore Monastery, who take naturally to Rossellini's direction. Bounding barefoot through the fields in their tattered tunics, they bring a gentle artlessness and a shining simplicity to their roles...
Holohan had parachuted into the northern Italian mountains with an Italian-speaking U.S. lieutenant, Aldo Icardi, and a U.S. sergeant named Carl G. LoDolce, to organize resistance in the enemy rear. A few months later, his subordinates rei ported by secret radio that Holohan was presumed to have been killed during an attack by German forces. Four years after the war, curious Italian police unearthed a shockingly different story...