Word: burle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's Christopher Plummer, a talented actor (Broadway's The Lark, TV's Little Moon of Alban), arrives in turn-of-the-century Miami, where he harkens to tales about Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), a red-bearded snake charmer off in the Everglades whose band of swamp angels (including such old Thespians as ex-Pug Tony Galento, Clown Emmett Kelly, Jockey Sammy Renick) pick off the wildlife like hungry dogs in a horsemeat factory. Modern hunters would do well to study their technique: every bird they shoot falls within 2 ft. of their boats...
...Country. Director-Producer William Wyler's return to the Old West is no less triumphant because it is frankly epic in scope, and Burl Ives acts with the strength of ten as an up-from-the-dust rancher; with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker (TIME, Sept...
...Country. Director-Producer William Wyler's return to the Old West is no less triumphant because it is frankly epic in scope, and Burl Ives acts with the strength of ten as an up-from-the-dust rancher; with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker (TIME, Sept...
...head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that Big Daddy (Burl Ives) may be dying, and Maggie's real mission is to protect her share of the inheritance from Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson), a prolific dullard whose major contribution to the world is five little "neckless monsters...
...noisy cataract of the birthday party plunges along, the film swirls in tightening circles around each of the characters in turn, eroding the muddy façades they have built up for themselves. Burl Ives, under his robes of benevolent paterfamilias, is superb as a ruthless and contriving tyrant who has lived for 40-odd years with a woman he despises, and raised two sons only to be able to boast of a namesake. Gooper still sweats with jealousy over his brother's schoolboy athletic triumphs, and Maggie yearns pitiably for Brick's love and for the creature...