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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
Samurai (at the Telepix). A superior Far Eastern "Western," recounting the life of the legendary Japanese warrior Musashi, powerfully portrayed by Toshiro (Rashomon) Mifune. Handsomely color-photographed, this won an Academy Award as "best foreign film." For those whose Japanese is shaky, there are excellent English subtitles...
...general public is given a long (149-minute) look into the never-never land behind convent walls in the film version of Kathryn Hulme's best seller, The Nun's Story, now showing at the Metropolitan. To this reviewer the film appears as the most reverent and sensitive interpretation of Roman Catholic convent life yet given movie-goers. It towers above those stereotyped Roman Catholic nuns and priests perpetuated in Going My Way and Come to the Stable. It would be no surprise if Audrey Hepburn, who plays Sister Luke, and director Fred Zinnemann were given Academy Awards for their...
...lovers (in which, by rare exception, young love is not opposed by an elder generation), and of (2) poseurs. Every member of the personae is a persona in the old Latin sense of a mask-wearer; and the play is, in a way, an Elizabethan counterpart of today's best-seller, The Status Seekers...
...cold-voiced Malvolio, Fritz Weaver is adequate. His best moment, though, occurs when he is speechless: in his cross-gartered scene he brings along the forged letter and, misinterpreting Olivia's question, "Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?," drops it on the ground in stunned amazement. William Daniels' Sebastian leaves a favorable impression. Frederick O'Neal looks the part of the sea-captain Antonio, but his Shakespearean diction is woefully deficient...