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Movie number one is the thriller. A young, destitute American has been commissioned by a wealthy Californian to lure his expatriate son Phillip away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of his body...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 10/9/1961 | See Source »

Movie number two is Clement's portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 10/9/1961 | See Source »

Purple Noon studies its characters carefully and objectively, and Clement has made full use of his small but uniformly excellent cast. As the cruel and brutish playboy, Maurice Ronet stands out from the mass of playboys murdered in thrillers. When Marge puts off making love to lecture him on art...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 10/9/1961 | See Source »

Marie Laforet alternates between passion and great delicacy in the part of the sensuous, yet sensitive and enigmatic Marge. Unable to resist her painful attraction for Phillipe, she is successively tortured, loving, jealous, injured, and despite her mercurial temperament, always in character.

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 10/9/1961 | See Source »

It was all done in the name of mental health. Sammy Davis Jr., wearing a Sitting Bull headpiece, chased Frank Sinatra across the nightclub stage waving a tomahawk and shrieking, "You call me paleface one more time, I scalp you." Milton Berle promised that a coming act would be Beverly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Fun Night | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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