Word: amalfi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After exchanging Vesuvian clinches and clichés, Lana and Carlos elope without benefit of clergy, and the camera trails dutifully after them, pausing only for Technicolored glances at such tourist resorts as Positano and Amalfi. At long last, Lana's heart of gold rings true: she nobly sends her lover back to his roommate and his hand-wringing bride-to-be. Then, in the unmistakably Italo-American manner of Jimmy Durante, Lana walks off alone into the night, her head held high and going-as the synopsis puts it-"who knows where...
...have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness and makes the melodrama ludicrous. Although Robert Benchley amusingly bridges the three tales, Duvivier seems to take the stories themselves far too seriously. In fact, you can never...
Crimson All-Eastern hockey team members were wined and dined yesterday afternoon at the Cafe Amalfi, as coaches, writers, officials, and spectators applauded their all-star efforts...
Meeting at the Hotel Amalfi for their weekly luncheon, the Boston hockey writers gave B.C. 1591/2 points and first place standing in the East. Seven points back with 1521/2...