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...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raucous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raudous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
Life with Father. Alfried followed the script. He and his seven younger sisters and brothers (none of whom shared his status as a Krupp crown prince) were cared for by tutors and servants on an ordered schedule. For one 50minute period each evening, Alfried was to play with Father, like...
Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) has spared nothing-certainly not the viewer-in his pitiless case history. He spins out his catalogue of age's miseries to somewhat excessive length. But Dame Edith, 79, gives a superb performance that soars above the script. Hobbling on thick ankles that can no longer bear their burden, querulously demanding a pair of new shoes "nicely styled but not too racy," she has created new proof that for great actresses there is still no age limit...
...enthusiastically and with a disarming lack of pretension. There were moments of good acting and plenty of clowning throughout. Beyond these generalizations, however, I can find nothing to recommend the production. The director, who apparently does not believe in controlling his company, has allowed it to fabricate from the script a bundle of whimsical gestures. The voices, like the costumes, are loud, strident, and oblivious to the world around them. People rush into roles and lines often without the slightest appreciation of what the playwright is trying to convey...