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...Clock Fight were still present. Any attempt to make the picture in Fiumicino would probably be disastrous. Instead, Tamburella chose Terracina, a highly photogenic, centuries-old fishing village south of Rome. Having received TIME'S permission to use the story, he put his writers to work on the script. When shooting began last October, Tamburella used native Terracinans for all except the lead roles. One member of the cast, new to all moviegoers, is Patrizia Mangano (see cut), the heroine, who Tamburella thinks is headed for stardom...
...determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old bitter pride, and it takes all of the script's doing to bring him around in time for a lighthearted but misty-eyed ending...
Prizes are $500 for an hour script, $250 for a half hour drama. Only one prize will be awarded each month...
...picture is exceptional for photography that is restrained and accurate, for a script that is quietly humorous, for a cast in which nobody is exceptional and everybody is competent, including Harvard's own Ricardo Moutalban. It is exceptional for dealing with war on the personal level, on the when-do-we-eat-next or where-do-we-sleep-tonight level, rather than trying to cover the complexity of an entire operation. Genuine combat films are fine, but you may find they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionies...
...picture is exceptional for photography that is restrained and accurate, for a script that is quietly humorous, for a cast in which nobody is exceptional and everybody is competent, including Harvard's own Ricardo Montalban. It is exceptional for dealing with war on the personal level, on the when-do-we-eat-next or where-do-we-sleep-tonight level, rather than trying to cover the complexity of an entire operation. Genuine combat films are fine, but you may find they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionics...