Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposals which would have gone far towards this end were introduced, of course, in the Eightieth Congress, yet none of them succeeeded, in spite of Republican majorities in both houses. The Taft-Hartley Act, which emerged as the compromise, cast formidable new obstacles in the way of union organization and conferred advantages upon management vis-a-vis labor which had not been therefore a part...
...injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious defect in the acting of these and the other members of the large cast is their sloppyness in meeting cues. If Smithies subjects them to a little more discipline, they should be much more polished in subsequent performances. Yet all the rough spots of the opening night can still not blot out a thoroughly likeable...
Although the cast of The Ballet of Romeo and Juliet is made up almost entirely of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater dancers, only Ulanova and a few others actually do expressive dancing in the film; the rest is rhythmical miming and pageantry à la Russe. Even the principals are made to underplay the heavily charged scenes. This makes the bedroom scene a little cool, but is a blessing when the bodies start dropping...
...Look at Eternity. The cunning fakery of the sets was dwarfed by the outsize playing of the big cast. Director Hill, 31, an ex-marine fighter pilot, still cannot believe his luck: "If one actor had missed his cue, the whole thing would have fallen apart. Every single actor came in on the button. It was the most beautiful week I ever spent. Everybody realized that it was an experiment in trying to open up TV to the kind of fast, intricate cutting only possible to get in films...
Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with satanic majesty. The "supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown (TIME, March...