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...prolific writer of adventure stories, Author Harris knows his way around a war and, in particular, the chaotic landscape of a routed army. His military men are simple enough to recall George Henty, the turn-of-the-century bard of boyhood. But Harris is so skillful that he keeps the suspense mounting in the best of two action worlds: the battlefield and the law courts...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage. The film flickers with the glitter of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon dominates the stage. The film flickers with the glitters of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
...Welles has ignored the light side of the pun-prone, fun-filled roisterer. Falstaff describes himself as "not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Not, apparently, in Welles. What ultimately makes this Falstaff ring false is a lack of comedy in the Bard's most comic creation...
This is not Zeffirelli's first brush with the bard. He once overdirected an eccentric Italian version of Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" In Shrew, he displays a sure sense of what makes comedy funny. When a classic is treated as deathless, it dies; by being brash and breezy, Zeffirelli has breathed new life into an old text...