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Zweig's Mosca poses serious problems for any actor: he must be portrayed straightforwardly in a cast of caricatured characters. After finessing a series of unsavory plots, he must win both the audience's admiration and their acceptance of his reformation. The boyish energy and joie de vivre which John Cunningham brings to the part help to solve these problems: he clearly enjoys his villainy because he enjoys quick-witted plots, particularly at the expense of villains, rather than because he shares the other charactrs' vices. Cunningham understandably has trouble with the rather mawkish conclusion, which Carnovsky has adapted from...
Topping the film's unholy triangle, Rita Tushingham deserts her waif roles to play a strident Teddy girl, sexwise and pound-foolish. Partly because housewifery sounds easier than getting a job, she marries a boyish motorcycle enthusiast, Colin Campbell. Their formal wedding, with cyclists revving up outside the church, is a travesty of gracious living. And Director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) weaves lively, sharp-eyed observation into a rowdy reception followed by the couple's honeymoon at a dreary resort...
...Taipei the dashing 34-year-old ex-fighter pilot had easily charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor...
Stamp plays Clegg more as a psychotic Adonis. The winsome boyish airs that made him a perfect choice for the movie version of Billy Budd (1962) are a crucial drawback when he has to reason maniacally: "There'd be a bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates...
...LEAVE YOU (Reprise) is subtitled '"Frank Sinatra Sings All There Is to Know about Love." He falls hard (Then Suddenly Love), he pleads (Talk to Me Baby), he almost cries (Dear Heart), he cares too much (Available), then not at all (Pass Me By). Sinatra is boyish, lilting and convincing even when defending the proposition that true love does not care "whether...