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...Grand Olympics is a blood-and-guts thriller of more heroic cast. Filmed by 22 Italian cameramen under the direction of Romolo Marcellini, this color documentary dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad of 1960. The film begins with a helicoptic view, swooping over the dome of St. Peter's, then briefly darts away to Greece to catch the sun's rays igniting the traditional torch through a burning glass at Olympia. Soon some 5,000 athletes from 85 nations parade through Rome to the vast Stadio Olimpico. The flame arrives...
...master fake. Craving romance, he has procured himself a license as ship's captain, though he has never set foot on an oceangoing deck. At 60 he "retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor in bed. One fine day Vasco is asked to take command of a real ship. Unrattled, the sofa salt mounts the bridge, delegates all authority to the chief mate-until a moment arrives when he cannot escape command. But the very...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Fighting E," a tribute to both aircraft carriers named Enterprise, World War II's heroic conventional version and the new nuclear-powered successor...
Short on excitement, Trumpet shows a streak of rather whimsical originality in a sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...
Unlike the Oresteia of Aeschylus, in which Orestes heroically kills Clytemnestra to restore order, Orestes' matricide is set in a context where formal (although hollow) legality prevails. Orestes is at first sympathetic and wounded with guilt; in the course of the play his criminal nature is revealed. Euripides mocks the heroic ideal by showing Orestes' depravity and the depravity of those around...