Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree that...
Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes...
Parrish (Warner) is the celluloid name for Troy (Surfside 6) Donahue, who has a wheatfield of golden hair, ripply pectoral muscles and a pair of sapphire-tinted eyes -in a word, a dreamboat who by his own tally is "No. 1 on the fan mail list at the studio and No. 2 or 3 in all of Hollywood right now." Troy plays the part, as the ads put it, of an "intruder in Connecticut's Million-Dollar Mile," which sounds like moneyed exurbia and turns out to be rich tobacco country in the Connecticut River Valley...
...celluloid gut-spillers were a rousing commercial success-about the only dramatic success in a season of frightful failure. Producer David Susskind's tenuous empire was tottering: his Witness was canceled in midseason, his fatuous debate with Nikita Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated...
...exploiting almost all the cinema's techniques of trompe l'oeil, a daring special effects man named Ray Harryhausen has produced a celluloid illusion in which men and monsters, giants and midgets merge without a seam. Unfortunately, though, there are ragged lines in the script-which might be described as accelerated Swift. The dean's fans will, for instance, get a nasty turn when they discover that Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) has a scantily clad girl friend (June Thorburn). And they may feel even worse when the hero tells her, in ponderous Jungian prose, that "the giants...