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...beast." said the local court in the dispassionate tones of bewigged British justice, "appears to be a human being who has been brought up to kill on the orders of those in charge of him, and to kill with bestial ferocity. While employed in its inhuman task, the creature disguises itself in the skin of a lion, or partly in lion skins and partly in baboon skins...
...battles tirelessly for the best interests of his employers-a group of people about as easy to live with as a family of full-grown crocodiles. In the end, of course, the butler has the crocodiles eating out of his hand, and in the final frame the charming little beast who found him snaps him up in marriage...
Couple Two is the uneasy union of a shy young scientist (Jeffrey Hunter) and the sort of neighborhood flirt (Patricia Owens) who likes to bring out the beast in men, and then feed it peanuts...
...startling flashes of choreographic brilliance. The most ballyhooed premiere of all was Prince of the Pagodas (TIME, Jan. 14) by John Cranko, with music by Benjamin Britten (his first ballet score). Choreographer Cranko's splintered story had in it recurrent themes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, plus snatches of court intrigue reminiscent of King Lear viewed through the wrong end of the telescope. The stage was roiled by gaudy dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite all that the ballet did not get across its tale of a rejected princess (Ballerina Beriosova) and a prince...
...even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that the movies that were grossing well were horror or rock-'n'-roll films. So I decided to combine them with an exploitation title. You don't need...