Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the picture that Actor Marlon Brando, after signing to play the title role, ran away from just as the cameras were about to start grinding at him, shouting over his shoulder that he had to see his psychiatrist in a hurry. Still, for moviegoers who feel hardier than Brando and can stand up to the broadsides of grandeur, The Egyptian has a kind of blurby, big-adjective poetry about...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption: with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...Brando in this show is one glorious meathead. The gone look, the reet vocabulary and the sexual arrogance are still the Brando brand of behavior. But for once the mannerisms converge, like symptoms, to point out the nature of the man who has them. The audience may never forget that Brando is acting, but it will know that he is doing a powerful acting...
...stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...