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...movie about the seamy side of the fight game. Between bouts, Presley Elviscerates a few helpless songs, moos over Joan, and twists like Little Egypt. Gig Young as a blarneying promoter and Lola Albright as his "fiancée" try to beat some brains into the picture but the script resists successfully...
...bent toward tragedy, it is pleasant to note that Agee's last letter was one in which he was able to extract an amiable fantasy from the world of caged, frustrated animals. The letter is in the form of a draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light...
...where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...
...Shot near California's Mammoth Lakes, the film owes much of its beauty to nature. The camera hovers with loving grace over limpid, mirror-bright pools, trees like green-hooded knights, and the rumpled grandeur of blue-blanketed mountains. Ride the High Country has a rare honesty of script, performance and theme-that goodness is not a gift but a quest. In the unhurried tempo of their speech, their ease of bearing, the firm-lipped gravity of their faces. Actors McCrea and Scott give the action strength and substance. The western has always been a stance as well...
...totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture of nostalgic balladry and percussive tension, and even when the hand of ironic coincidence seems to overshape a scene or two, Dalton Trumbo's script is refreshingly tart and literate. Pooling their skills, they have fashioned a film of distinction and signed it with honor...