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...characters of The Rogue's Trial have an intense need for mercy. The Church, represented by a bishop, a priest, and a sacristan, is responsive only to the needs of the rich, personified by Antonio Morris (Frank Gerold) who claims to be "maintaining the ancient leisure of the nobleman." Workers John Cricket and Chico, (Tom Wright and Felipe Michael Noguera) are exploited and abused by their masters, the baker and his wife (Carlo Rizzo and Patricia Dougan), and all of the characters are robbed by bandits...
...wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler biographers have acknowledged as an invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, paid for his resistance with his life. Without overplaying their hand, Authors Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby make Von Moltke something of a prophet, so concerned with disturbing trends toward materialism and impersonal technocracy...
...fervent evangelist that the Inquisition imprisoned and examined him more than once about his life, teaching and theology. Perturbed, he left for Paris, where he spent seven years at the university, became "Master Ignatius," and gathered around him the first of his permanent companions, among them a young Spanish nobleman named Francis Xavier...
Typecasting? Playing an urbane and arrogant old nobleman, Sir Rudolf Bing, 71, the urbane and arrogant ex-general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his debut in the New York City Opera's new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord. In his new role, Sir Rudolf was an absolute lamb: early to rehearsals, a dear at taking direction and patience itself while his flowing gray wig was being glued on his bald head. But all the divas he has put down must have loved Critic Harold Schonberg's New York Times review...
BARON BLOOD-who is referred to by the hero with unconscious levity as "that ghoulish baron on my father's side"-is a long-dead nobleman brought back to life by some frivolous incantations. His visage is ghastly to behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance...