Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIANS. The title belies the inexorably arid and sere setting in which an excellent cast of villains and victims (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) is touched by a vagrant grace...
...exulted a middle-aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President...
...favorite city on earth," crooned Richard Burton after settling into a midtown Manhattan hotel. One of his favorite people on earth was there too-meaning in this case not Elizabeth Taylor, 35, though she stood smilingly at hand, but Burton's ten-year-old daughter Kate, elder of his two children by ex-wife Sybil. In honor of the several momentous occasions occurring simultaneously-it was Burton's 42nd birthday, as well as his first trip to U.S. shores in two years-young Kate pulled out all the hostessy stops, taking her father and stepmother to a matinee...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long...
Ironically, the film's most stirring moments are not its overheated love scenes but the brief encounters between Burton and Guinness. In one, Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with a symbolic absolution. At such moments of transcendent drama-and there are enough to make it worthwhile-The Comedians is easily forgiven its other sins...