Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats...
...Stevenson's latest adventure was made to order for his self-cast role as the romantically dashing foreign correspondent who lets nothing-sometimes not even the facts-get in the way of a good story. A World War II Royal Navy flyer and jet test pilot, Stevenson has been forced out of Yugoslavia, denounced by the Peking radio for his stories after a trip through Red China, and scolded by the Canadian government for breaking a story on Canada's highly secret "flying saucer"-a saucer-shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where...
...lives and stretching across many years. Twenty hours of film would not be enough to do Tolstoy justice, and Vidor has less than four. The inevitable result is a telescoping of scenes and a hopscotching through the plot that scat ters attention from one leading character to another. The cast speaks in discordant accents, ranging from Cockney to Italian to Middle European to Middlewestern, and some of the most complex of Toltoy's people can only be hinted at: Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine) is a gutural swashbuckler; the eternal peasant, 'laton (John Mills), has time only...
...from passivity. As he struggles for the answers to the great questions (Why does a man live? Why does he kill? Who owns his loyalty?), Fonda acts to the very limit of his considerable powers, and sometimes gives the impression of being the only man in the huge cast who has read the book...
...special gift for the macabre. She raises an unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white...