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...machinery of Bergman's allegory clanks at every turn of the plot-it needs quite a few more squirts of midnight oil. But as always his actors are excellent, his camera work refined, his script concise and elegantly written. As always his deep-revolving spirit dredges up great gloomy gems of wisdom that flash light from many facets into the heights and depths of life. Among them is one of the first water: "Love shields one from-nothing...
King of the Roaring Twenties (Allied Artists) is a B that doesn't bumble-thanks to a tight script, sharp direction, and neat performances by the biggest cast of big-name players ever cornered for a quickie. Among those present: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney. Keenan Wynn, Joseph Schildkraut. Dan O'Herlihy, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy. William Demarest and David (Richard Diamond) Janssen...
Peeled off The Big Bankroll, Leo Katcher's popular biography of Under-worldling Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928). Jo Swerling's script tells the sordid story of a boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and uses it to sup with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally...
...camera finds a compelling image of eternal youth, of the doomed and beautiful son-lover of the legends. Actress Cardinale seems almost ludicrously crude by comparison. But her faults are not all her fault. Director Valeric Zurlini, a well-known cheesecake vendor, incessantly interrupts the subtle drama of the script to turn his lens on Claudia's chest. He obviously intends the show to be a bust. And so, in the last analysis...
Other Pastures. Following the time-honored Detroit script, union leaders, expressed shock and anger. "Incredibly inadequate," cried U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, chief of the union's G.M. department. Stalking out of the Chrysler meeting, U.A.W. Vice President Norman Matthews, who heads both the union's Chrysler and American Motors departments, snapped: "I'm going where the grass is greener." He headed for American Motors...