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Lean's feeling was that nothing could defeat him but an inability to match Bolt's script and measure up somehow to the looming background figure of Pasternak. For although Bolt and Lean had simplified the novel to bring the love story into bright focus, Lean still had to cope with the evocation of revolutionary Russia and the land itself. "I don't think this is so much a novel," says Bolt, "as an enormous disguised poem...
...Quixote-Cervantes, Richard Kiley is at least as good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...
...rock-'n'-roll idol, Sylvie Vartan. Playing a yé-yé girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent's nightmare vision of a wayward, irresistible, aggressively precocious teen...
...music and photography, for all their beauty and aptness, are only corollaries to the script. The author, Archibald MacLeish, wisely insisted that Glazier and Laderman work from it without changes. It is simple and poetic, yet within the eulogistic lyricism, MacLeish offers dozens of fresh insights into the motives and character of Mrs. Roosevelt. He makes her humanity human. And at the end we know the woman, not as a psychiatrist or a political admirer would, but as her friends must have...
Return from the Ashes borrows polished Actress Ingrid Thulin from Ingmar Bergman's glittering stable, and puts her to posture in one of those lady-in-a-jam thrillers, impossible to believe but easy to enjoy. With a script that gives her lucid intelligence little to fasten upon, Actress Thulin often seems well beyond the wit's end of the character she plays-a Jewish doctor who returns to Paris after World War II, eager to pick up her successful practice and her ne'er-do-well young husband...