Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...
...What You Did has just got under way when a pair of youngsters wander out to a barn to visit a pony. Suddenly the door slams shut behind them. Outside, the bushes begin rustling. Can it be the wind? An unseen enemy? Actually, nothing at all is happening. The culprit is really Producer-Director William Castle, who seldom lets plausibility slow the pace of his grade-B shockers...
Actually this level of inspiration can be amusing if built into a well-structured play and excellently acted and directed, but the second half to Etc. is so bad that two out of four chief characters on stage do nothing but listen and wander from chair to chair while the other two inarticulately convince themselves that they are finally seeing the truth about their own hearts just the way Tennessee Williams said they would. The director, Morton da Costs (famous for No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame, Music Man and such stuff), has done a barely competent job of maneuvering...
...mountain. Around the mountain, like a mighty serpent, winds a path that spirals upward to the summit. At seven stages of the ascent are situated seven cornices, and on each of them penitents purge one of the seven deadly sins. The proud plod under heavy burdens; the envious wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they meet famous figures of the Middle Ages engaged in the agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel. At first the climb is cruelly...
...only discerning palates will pucker at the aftertaste. His subjects are the Thornton children, a quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn), his raffish mate (James Coburn) and a crew of inept, superstitious ruffians...