Word: agers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding down the aisles for a deep, bracing breath of carbon monoxide...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between a knowing, nubile teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigre (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigré (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
...itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence of the near adolescent nymphet, an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm...
...junior-style Olympics at the field impressed the boys especially. The monolithic stadium that they usually had to sneak into was opening up its facilities for them. "Ya' mean it's for free?" queried a puzzled teen-ager...