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...following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie...
...what was modest and tuneful from a handful of peasant-outfitted musicians on Broadway here sounds like corny, department-store Muzak. The costumes, surprisingly, are the most professional element of the show; clearly, a lot of money has been spent on them. Some, like The Seducer's white tails, cane, and hat, are noticeably dazzling; others are trim and colorful, with a surprising amount of attention paid to detail...
Kathy Lowry, casting aside the cane she has been walking with for two weeks, bravely fought to victory in eight of her 12 duels, suffering with her injured knee...
...good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him to stay back a year in school, but he was able to learn quickly and started to excel. An even greater accomplishment, however, was learning to walk with a cane when he was 14. He spent two summers learning to walk around a city by himself and learning how to cook and play children's games. At first, walking alone was frightening; this forced him to be alert, until he gained enough confidence so that it became natural. The first time...
...Eastwood interviews by seeing three of the actor-director's movies (The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such...