Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your fine cinema review of The Horse's Mouth, but found it interesting where you state Alec Guinness "never quite manages to convince anybody that the old rapscallion [Gulley Jimson] is really a genius . . . He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force to fill out a personality as large as Jimson's [Nov. 24]." I can't help thinking back a few years to when my late, demonic-forced husband, Robert (Odd Man Out) Newton, wanted to play Joyce Gary's hero. He was constantly being told he should...
...marvel is that this pride of cinema lions could be confined in one cage without roaring each other down. Director Mann has obviously cracked the whip, but some of the credit also belongs to Author Rattigan, whose script is the very model of a lion act-the exits and entrances precisely timed, the terrors tactfully spaced, the total effect not seriously disturbing but guaranteed to make the customers forget their troubles in the simple animal pleasure of watching someone else...
Then there is The Major (David Niven), a potty old military party who never lets up about the good old days in North Africa-until one day he is charged with molesting a woman in a local cinema, and the newspaper reports that he was not a major at all but only a lieutenant, and that he spent the war in a supply depot. This makes for several other complications because the resident battle-ax (Gladys Cooper) soon starts swinging for The Major's head. She demands that he be forced to leave the hotel, even though-or perhaps...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty, although in moviemaking terms it is sometimes tatty Tati...
...CINEMA...