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...life isn't all roses is that South Africa has an oppressive racial policy-a bit of news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...
Towards the end of Soft Skin, Pierre must make an extremely essential phone call. Just at that point a silly looking blond captures the phone booth and Pierre waits impatiently while she completes her call. Director Francois Truffaut has chosen a device so obviously contrived that your entire build-up of tension gets stopped in its tracks...
...same appetizing flavors may be found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...
...Explosions. Vespas bursting into the left ear and out the right. Trucks with wheels of stone rumbling down the middle of the bed." Thus two Americans awake to the "normal havoc" of a Sicilian morning. Howard is a huge, blond, earnest young graduate student; Sarah, his wife, is a humorous, easygoing girl with honey-colored hair and long shapely legs. They have come to Agrigento to inspect the Grecian ruins and enjoy the local color; but they stay, as Author Tom Cole relates in the superb novella that dominates his first book of stories, because Sicily seizes them...
...Skull-faced Jack Palance comes off as one of the most improbable-looking masterminds in the annals of crime, and Van Heflin is solid as the vengeful detective who turns out to have heart. But Thiefs best value is in the minor roles: John Davis Chandler, an ash-blond menace with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement...