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...bellowing, or bugling, George Lipton does nothing to diminish the preposterous comedy of his role. Mortimer is acted well, but Hugh Reilly often forces excessive gusto or thickheadedness into his part. The glowering Jonathan is solidly acted by George Cotton, who, sadly, looks like Orson Welles instead of Boris Karloff (the role was written as a parody of Karloff, and Karloff was persuaded to act it in the original production...
...made history by discovering a new way of treating the classic TV western story-Writer Alvin Sapinsley put it in blank verse. Even more surprising: it worked. Franchot Tone, Lee Grant and Christopher Plummer played the three tragic figures who end as corpses on a dusty street, while Boris Karloff leaned confidentially into the camera as a one-man Greek chorus to give poetic expression to the eternal verities of life, death, and man's irreparable foolishness...
...They followed the gleam of her sincerity as she led them through a thicket of theology, until they came to the existential end: that man cannot be true to God except he be true to himself. When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them. As the final curtain fell on a flaunting pageant of Joan's triumph at the coronation of the Dauphin (Paul Roebling), the first-nighters rose with a roar. They gave the cast eight curtain calls...
...spill his guts in their laps. Julie's instinct is not toward dissolution, but solution. In her search for clarity she has developed a more conscious craft than most of her contemporaries have. "When Julie is at the height of her most emotional scene," says Fellow Actor Karloff, "she is always in complete control of herself, just as a fine pianist is always master of his music." Says Anthony: "The most talented of our young actors are all unpredictable stuff. They don't know where their inspiration comes from when it comes, or where it goes to when...
Just as Joan has been put in an American context to heighten her joyful spirit, so the other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American...