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...scientist and an atomic furnace. Sean Connery is properly urbane and unbelievably brave as James Bond. 55 Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas...
...Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas; there are fireworks and plenty of blood mixed with the mob scenes, and the sets are Bronstonian in magnificence...
...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
...murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back to the compound she gets winged by a Boxer sniper. The kindly old Viennese doctor (kindly old Paul Lukas) tells her that amputation is the only...
Perhaps because of his weak chin, perhaps because he is unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...