Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
Twelve Angry Men. An enthralling battle of minds in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...Manolete, it would be hard for most viewers to understand why all the fuss about one bullfighter. As the show's Co-Scriptwriter Barnaby Conrad has often said before, Manolete was a slight man of grace, warmth and gentle humor outside the ring; but as played by Actor Jack (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Palance, he was awkward, humorless and uncommonly large in his baggy traje de luces. When Palance was not glooming about the bulls and that other, more ferocious enemy-the crowd-he was busy swilling expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this...
Though the skilled directorial hand of John Frankenheimer showed through cleanly in the crowd scenes, Manolete was largely an attenuated and unlyrical hymn to the man. Only Actor Nehemiah Persoff as the manager brought emotional content to a bloodless script: "We kept asking for more and more and more," says Persoff after Manolete has been gored for the last time. "And more was his life...
...reconcile the doctrine of massive retaliation with the Christian ethic?) Though NBC rudely cut the Bible-quoting Secretary off in the middle of an answer (to plug other NBC shows), the net result was good human drama, "After all," says Agronsky, "this is show business. The interviewer is part actor and must work in dramatic terms...