Word: jewels
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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First-night fans saw a brilliant revolvable set of a little Paris street corner and its bistro. In his scenario, Petit turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance...
...pair of jewel thieves on the run from the police join the migrant workers crowded into an abandoned barracks on Italian estate. One of them (Hollywood's Doris Dowling) slogs into the rice paddies and finds redemption in hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook...
...didn't help festivalgoers determine where Italian music might be heading, the three composers got a hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...
...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while documenting a $1,000,000 jewel burglary (TIME, June...
...develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...