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Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...
Creative & Destructive. Self Condemned, Lewis' first novel in 14 years, is another rough, tough clip off the old beard...
...role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history." Sitting on the dustbin, and holding the lid down, were Lenin...
...Jacques Prevert script is well written, and the dialogue both mirrors and openly remarks on English "common sense." Old maxims are mixed--"Where there's an antidote, there's a poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...
...notably in their request for surgery. They particularly remembered childhood incidents supporting the idea that they had been female from birth. All, to some extent, were transvestites, i.e., desired to wear women's clothes. They struggled against all overt signs of masculinity; one even had his heavy, black beard burned out by electrolysis. Intense sexual conflicts, ranging from prudery to deep feelings of guilt, were evident in all of them. Said one: "It's all dirty. If I could have the operations and dress in feminine clothes, I'd feel free and clean...