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...Young Savages. The plot, involving Burt Lancaster as an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute teen-age gangsters, is straight out of Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the camerawork in Manhattan's rat-run slums is cruelly authentic...
...skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot is make-believe from the pasteboard jungle of Hollywood...
UNIVERSITY: Sinclair Lewis plus Hollywood now equals two Academy Awards. Elmer Gantry is the movie: and if it's more Eastman Color than scandolous revivalism, why no one cares overmuch. For, in truth, Elmer proves to be a very entertaining and lavishly constructed film. Burt Lancaster (who copped one of those towards) is a share hypocrite indeed at Sect Leader; and Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones (the other Award reciplent) are admirable as his womenfolk. Daily...
Adams House: Graham T. Allison, Jr., Joseph L. Featherstone, James J. Fox, Douglas B. Hanson, Burt P. Johnson, Jr., Donald M. Scott, Lawrence N. Stevens II, James T. Halverson...
...mood to hide it capped the evening by staggering gracefully onstage, supported by Husband Eddie Fisher, to accept her Best Actress award (nominally for the margarinal Butterfield 8 but actually, wise guys said for the pneumonia and for such past successes as Suddenly, Last Summer). Upstaged, Burt Lancaster meekly mumbled off with his Best Actor award (for Elmer Gantry). Earlier, Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) had received the award for Best Supporting Actor and had made the evening's only parsable acceptance speech Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry) won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and deserved another for her who-would...