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...Amanda, Andrea Levinger never dominates the stage the way she is meant to despite her skillful use of the postures and phrases of the former Southern gentlewoman. She should be a grand figure, sweeping her son and daughter out of her path: but in this production she is only bitter, and their deference to her seems uncalled...
...players have marooned themselves in a torpid adaptation of Alberto Moravia's first novel, published in 1929. A young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because all choices seem meaningless. Ultimately, meaninglessness infects the film as a whole, and Indifference is remarkable only...
...Bullyboy. Selma is a city of 29,500 people-14,400 whites, 15,100 Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." In Selma, Negroes are supposed to know their place. A Selma ordinance of 1852 declared that "any Negro found upon the streets of the city smoking a cigar or pipe or carrying a walking cane must be on conviction punished with 39 lashes"-and the place has not changed...
...Bogie" veteran Peter Lorre and newcomer Robert Morley. The "characters" are on their way to British East Africa to look for uranium, but their ship is held over in Southern Italy for repairs. While they wait, Bogart gets involved with fellow passenger Jennifer Jones, a gold-digging prevaricating English "gentlewoman;" her husband develops an interest in Bogart's wife, Gina Lolobrigida; and Bogey's pals begin to suspect that he's about to sell them out. The ship sails and sinks, and the passengers are stranded and arrested as spies in a hostile Arab nation. Bogart, resourceful as ever, secures...
Into an elegant manse atop the white cliffs of England's south coast ventures Deborah Kerr, beautifully coiffed and dressed for a royal weekend, doing her primmest impersonation of a gentlewoman fallen upon difficult days. Indeed, no one would suspect that she is a convicted murderess but recently released from prison. So Dame Edith Evans hires Deborah to tend her garden -where nothing grows-and to keep an eye on Granddaughter Hayley Mills...