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...fluidly mounted flashbacks, four separate versions of the event are re-enacted. Up to a point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide...
...widely admired Japanese movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
...finest suspense double-bills to come along in years. Orson Welles is one of the most imaginative geniuses in the theatrical world today; in Touch, aided by Charlton Heston, he uses his unflagging gifts to produce a masterful film. In Cry, James Mason and Rod Steiger try to outwit each other, with climactic scenes in an elevator shaft and a subway tunnel...
...named Clemson; this was changed because South Carolina has an all-white college of that name. The ad agency for Allstate Insurance vetoed a suicide in the story. The ad agencies objected to the phrase "20 men in hoods"; it was changed to "in homemade masks," but Actor Rod Steiger slipped up and said "in hoods" anyway. After all possible aspects of the script that might offend religious or regional groups were hashed over, the laundering was applied to whatever might cause Mexicans to take umbrage (deleted: "Mex," "enchilada-eater," "bean-eaters," "greasy...
...result was far better than any one of the surgeons had a right to expect. Director John Frankenheimer caught the drought-tautened tension of the desert town, William Shatner was terrifyingly convincing as the rabble-rousing shopkeeper bent on avenging his hurt pride, Steiger made the drunken sheriff both scruffy and appealing, as Serling intended...