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...Bandits of Corsica (Global Productions; United Artists) has another go at the creaking old dual-identity plot. This time Richard Greene is cast as 1) a gypsy knife thrower, and 2) a dashing nobleman who espouses (circa 1830) the cause of Corsican freedom against French Tyrant Raymond Burr. It seems that the nobleman and the gypsy are Siamese twins. Though severed by surgery, they are still tied to each other by a strange spiritual bond. Before long, the twins join forces against the tyrant who finds himself seeing double. Additional complications set in when twin No. 1 (the gypsy) develops...
...same bill is Corsican Vengeance, which continues the adventures of the Corsican brothers. It is gratifying to see those biological miracles, split Siamese twins, still sword playing after fifty years. Paula Raymond and Richard Greene have the leads...
...First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married one of Napoleon's marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and became a queen on her husband's election...
...would like to think his latest release is the start of a new trend. Mr. Thorpe could do, I'm sure, a magnificent job on Mark of Zorro or The Corsican Brothers. The latest retake of Les Miserables, the ninth, I think, should be further proof to Hollywood that old wine often tastes much better in new bottles...
...London publisher announced a new book for its next spring list: Satan in the Suburbs, five short stories by Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 80, the first Russell fiction published under his own name. (One of the stories, The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X, was published anonymously in Go magazine earlier this year...