Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Accompanied by bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 10, her pixyish daughter by the late Aly Khan, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 42, sailed from Manhattan for Spain to co-star with Rex Harrison in a film titled The Oldest Confession. On hand to chaperone Rita and Rex, who will be playing a married couple in the "suspense comedy," will be the film's producer, James Hill, who happens to be Rita's fifth and current husband...
Exodus. Despite its four-hour duration and pro-Zionist tirade, the film version of the bestseller about the birth of Israel is an expert, inspiring political thriller...
...Novelist Kennaway, succeeds in waging the internecine peace of barracks life, in suggesting the almost homosexual intensity of male relationships in a world too safe from women; and Director Ronald (The Horse's Mouth) Neame makes the most of these opportunities. But the last third of the film is confused by errors of exposition. The picture begins and middles along as a warmly human comedy of military character. The mood of the violent conclusion is unprepared and therefore unacceptable...
...scene is a melodramatic master stroke, a fusion of white heat of irony and violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other...
...Magnificent Seven. The best western so far this year, this film is an impressive and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence...