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...Week is another in the long series of Loeb Experimental near-misses. This view of life in Poland just after World War II could have been as gripping throughout as it was in the few really effective spots, but poor direction and generally weak acting kept the script from fulfilling its promise...
...equine Nijinsky, and each negotiates with elegance and passion the figures of the classical school. Producer Disney declares categorically: "These horses are human.'' They are at any rate more intelligent than most of the people connected with his picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well, frankly, a horse that acts the way he does would instantly be shipped to the glue factory...
...than $250,000 an adaptation -with a nibble or two at the gross. He has succeeded in his one-man crusade for screenwriter independence, at least for himself if not yet for others. Important actors like Spencer Tracy have threatened to quit if a word of an Abby Mann script is changed...
Author Duras tells a story well-as she proved in the script for the film Hiroshima Man Amour-and her eye and ear are unfailingly good. Precisely what they are telling her is another matter. 10:30 is a murky book, but in its anti-worldly way it seems to be saying that the two groups of people-the three travelers on the one hand, the murderer and his two victims on the other-are equally inadequate and equally doomed. Both Maria and Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good...
...script that runs more to whimsy than to wit, the inspector is given most of the good lines. "A Boche!" he bellows indignantly when Sellers, setting a trap for the I.P.O. Gang, suggests a German safecracker for a ?250,000 bank robbery. "See 'ere cahn't we give this job to a British lad?" But Sneaky Pete has the sneakiest line in the show. Preoccupied with his problems, he waffles into his flat one evening and whoops absentmindedly for his mistress...