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...rest of the film is very difficult to evaluate. Beside the two principals, the picture displays some actors who have in the past shown much competence, including Yul Brynner as the villainous Pharaoh, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as his urbane father, Judith Anderson as a sinister royal servant, and John Derek as Joshua. But their performances here are hampered by the dialogue, a cheap sort of rhetoric that is meant to be elevated and "Biblical," but sounds only like ridiculous affectation. Nor does deMille's work as a director help the actors. While he is unquestionably a fine director of crowds...
...island's British rulers-industrious, underpaid civil servants dedicated to improving drains and discouraging murder, magic and overgrazing. There is mutual ignorance, as is shown by the case of a resident commissioner who does not catch on to the fact that his devoted servant has been selling the white man's bath water as a fertility charm. But there is also mutual understanding, and a sort of respect between the races...
...pitch and too ornate for his basically sympathetic tenor voice. Arthur Anderson also has vocal difficulties as Doctor Bartolo, but he acts the old stodge convincingly. In smaller parts Laurence Chvany and Grace Lewis are excellent, and Noel Tyl adds a marvelous bit as a lout of a servant...
...reply, Kuchel whose political patrons include such big names as Chief Justice Earl Warren and Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, has merely pointed to his record as a hardworking, honest public servant (state assemblyman state controller, U.S. Senator). If California voters decide on the basis of talk, Dick Richards has a good chance. If they decide on performance, Nice Guy Tommy Kuchel will go back to Washington...
...neck drawn in. The minutely defined muscles of legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening cinders, he attempted flight and sank deep into the growing piles of lapilli. He fought his way past the gates...