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...sight of them, for all have sprung, fatherless, from some worldwide parthenogenetic conspiracy-a detail borrowed from the eerie Village of the Damned (1960). The sequel pales in comparison, as do most sequels. But it is filmed with taste and acted in crisp style, particularly by Alan Badel as a witty geneticist who strikes just that note of detachment that makes the whole thing seem lightly plausible. The movie's spell holds nearly to the end, when all the far-out fun of pseudoscience suddenly shapes up as a message. Too bad that those sinister boys and girls have...
...rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...
...countess retaliates by suggesting that Hero seduce the governess. The seduction scene is the brilliant apex of the play, and as Alan Badel masterfully shades his performance from dueling banter to abashed tenderness, his acting moves beyond skill into the permanently and poignantly memorable. The next morning the governess flees the chateau, and the others seem ready to go on playacting at life as if it were still another comedy by Marivaux. All except Hero. He has seen himself for what he is and the world for what it is, and he taunts the countess' lover into challenging...
...Theater (Sat. 6 p.m., NBC). Romeo and Juliet, with Claire Bloom, Alan Badel...
...just as dubious as screen entertainment. A turgid multimillion-dollar blend of sex, spectacle and religion, it has been directed with a ponderous touch by William Dieterle. Chewing at the Technicolor scenery are Charles Laughton as a fat, licentious Herod, Judith Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl in an off-the-shoulder gown by Jean...