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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love. Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, are locked in this luckless triangle of yearning and rejection...
Clear Skies, which took top honors for Russia at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, will interest Westerners chiefly because it lets the light of day shine on some ideas new to the insular world of Soviet cinema. Director Grigori Chukhrai, who proved his talent with the sensitive, romanticized Ballad of a Soldier, tells a tale of illicit love-and tells it straight, without prudish apologies, against a background of post-World War II political tyranny. The off-screen villain of the piece is Joseph Stalin...
Chukhrai's plucky heroine, Sasha (Nina Drobysheva), left alone during the war, all but flings herself into the arms of a heroic airman, Aleksei (Evgeni Urbanski, the brooding amputee of Ballad). While Aleksei is missing and presumed dead, she bears his child. Miraculously, he returns at war's end, and when Sasha's stuffy brother-in-law objects to their living together, she tells him to go to hell...
...Broadway THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love, with Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, locked in a luckless triangle of yearning and rejection...