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...unusually talented cast. Cecil Parker and Michael Gough hilariously lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...
When Murrow and five teams made the eloquent This Is Korea-Christmas, 1952, the Murrow-and-Friendly advance memo explained: "We want to portray the face of war and the faces of the men now fighting it ... The best picture we could get would be a single G.I. hacking away at a single foxhole in the ice of a Korea winter . . ." Murrow brought back the vivid sight and sound of a marine's shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli...
Neat. But in the end. of course, something goes wrong, and Arnie is paid the wages of sin. More precisely, something goes wrong from the beginning, and it is Actor Palance. This performer has made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case...
Exquisitely shaped, the vases show the ancient Greeks as they were, their manlike gods and godlike men, their moments of joy and ecstasy, of heroism and erotic abandon. Whether they portray an Olympic race, a night on the town or a musician lost in his art (opposite), the figures have a bouncy, springlike energy that most observers find irresistible...
That Kim Novak cover is one of the coldest and most frivolous paintings I have ever seen of anyone. Robert Vickrey may see Novak chewing beads-but it is more likely a representation of Vickrey chewing his paint brush in frustration at not being able to portray a truly classic physiognomy...