Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, four weeks after the competing AromaRama opened in New York, Mike Todd Jr. finally uncorked his own Smell-o-Vision film. Something less than an attempt to go around the world in 80 whiffs, Scent of Mystery is a whodunit that lacks coherent narrative, is little more than a pastiche of festival scenes, falls on its nose...
Died. Dudley Nichols, 64, onetime journalist (New York World) who brought care and skill to 30 years of writing and directing movies (The Informer, Stagecoach), adapted Mourning Becomes Electra for film and, at the insistence of his old friend, Eugene O'Neill, produced and directed it as well; of cancer; in Hollywood...
Black Orpheus (French). Marcel Camus' modern version of the Orpheus legend, set in Brazil, is one of the most impressive cans of film so far cast up on U.S. shores by the so-called New Wave of French film directors...
...Blows (French). In another excellent New Wave film, the story of a runaway delinquent boy is turned into a broad indictment of the audience itself and society at large...
...Hollywood's most colossal film deserves most of the stupendous adjectives that M-G-M has lavished upon...