Word: brando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, the dialogue is the weakest part of the film; the critics pounced on awkward exchanges (NATASCHA: "Careful, these pajamas are transparent!" OGDEN: "So are you!") and lines like Brando's "I want you to know this is the first real happiness I've known." But criticizing the dialogue on conventional grounds is meaningless; in Chaplin's film, lines have little significance in themselves. The dialogue cannot be divorced from how a character says his line or what he looks like while he's saying it: these factors combine to form complete characterizations. Chaplin has carefully directed the line-readings...
...darkly pessimistic overtone. The 70-year-old director's point of view has soured over the years, and certain feelings can be inferred from his new film. Chaplin can neither take comfort in the security of old age or have faith in youth. The society girl with whom Brando dances is self-centered and vapid, a Marxist parody of upper class Capitalism. Her continual references to the beliefs of her father imply that she has been corrupted by Chaplin's low generation. In a parallel scene, old Miss Gaulswallow (Margaret Rutherford) is shown as equally useless, having partially retreated into...
...substandard shipboard farce that Chaplin wrote, directed and briefly appears in, Countess presents Marlon Brando as a U.S. diplomat with a fortune in oil, and Sophia Loren as a White Russian prostitute with a heart of gold. They meet in Hong Kong, and when his ship sails she stows away in his stateroom. For the rest of the show the principals spiel some of the most hilariously awful dialogue the screen has presented since sound tracks replaced title cards. Items: "Common harlot! Are you trying to ruin my career?" "You won't believe me when I tell you that...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Marlon Brando in The Ugly American...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "GUYS AND DOLLS" (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Elaine re-create the world of Damon Runyon in the 1955 film version of Broadway's Guys and Dolls...