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...Bond Honored, British Playwright John Osborne's tumid adaptation of an atrocious horror show by 17th century Spaniard Lope de Vega, has a hero who commits rape, murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem at the Old Vic and held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics...
...plaintiff in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles was Director George Stevens; the defendant, the National Broadcasting Co. The charge: "Rape of a creative effort." That's what Stevens had called it, anyhow. The "effort" was his memorable 1951 six-Oscar picture, A Place in the Sun. NBC bought the TV rights to the film from Paramount for $300,000, put it on nationwide TV last March, and Stevens protested that it was mutilated by the insertion of no fewer than 42 commercials...
...Cross to serve God's cause with their swords. Bohemond of Taranto, the impoverished son of the Norman conqueror of Sicily, sought to carve a kingdom of his own in the East. And they were joined by religious fanatics, adventurers and brigands who sought only pillage, murder and rape. In the Crusades, idealism and gangsterism were in harness...
...rage to live and a notion that flouting convention is the way to do it. Self-consciously she befriends a bright, embittered Indian boy; surreptitiously they become lovers. The relationship infuriates the English community and sets a bad example for the peasantry-at least for four Hindu hooligans who rape her one summer evening. The attackers escape, the Indian boy is vindictively jailed on a trumped-up political charge, and peaceful at last, the English girl dies in giving birth to her uncertainly sired child. Author Scott writes with gravity and grace. He has set his scarifying tale within...
Weekend at Dunkirk. This random, well-photographed essay on the futility of war will prove a letdown to audiences lured by the marquee pull of Jean-Paul Belmondo. As a French soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have...