Word: casbah
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Battle of Algiers. The best political film I've ever seen--wise, electrifying, and set in the Casbah...
...Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that takes him from the Casbah to the Caspian Sea, Buffalo to Kyoto...
...most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and, as the dying High Lama, Charles Boyer, of all people. It is a long way from the Casbah...
Just as the word casbah brings to mind Charles Boyer's sexily sinister invitation to accompany him there, the name Casablanca evokes the gravelly command of Humphrey Bogart: "Play it again, Sam." So it seemed like a good idea to Pan American Airways to advertise its flight to Casablanca with a movie still of the late Bogey and those immortal words. To his widow Lauren Bacall, though, it seemed like a lousy idea. "Is there no limit to what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart...
...foreplay in lovemaking. "I have a horror of the preliminaries of love," one of them confided. "The process of taking off one's clothes becomes a handicap with habit." In short, the smooth French lover, typified for millions by Charles Boyer's 1938 role as the romantic Casbah thief in Algiers, is becoming extinct...