Word: cioffi
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...Cioffi, who was equally impressive as the villain in Klute. There is also some robust acting by Moses Gunn as an orotund Harlem mobster. Despite a few too many racial jokes, Shaft is a fast-moving pleasure. Director Gordon Parks keeps things going at such a headlong pace that the movie hardly pauses for breath...
...other suitor is the captain, Solyony, who kills Tusenbach in the duel. He is a strange man, and throughout the play keeps putting scent on his hands to get rid of their smell of death--like some sort of male Lady Macbeth. Right from the first act, Charles Cioffi's portrayal is a remarkable piece of acting. Solyony speaks scarcely a half dozen times in all of Act I, and spends most of the time sitting silently on a chair in the corner. Nevertheless, Cioffi tells us a great deal about this morose and mysterious character. We notice a tiny...
...current third try, fortunately, Charles Cioffi and Patricia Elliott balance each other beautifully. Cioffi's performance is not up to Drake's or Bosco's, but it is very good all the same; and Miss Elliott's is almost the equal of the delectable Beatrice that Rosemary Harris once played opposite Barry Morse (also an even match...
...copies of each other. As he commented, "All my articulate Christians have different enthusiasms." And in the case of Ferrovius he allowed a would-be martyr to fail at the moment of trial by committing wholesale slaughter. In a striking change from his other roles for the Festival, Charles Cioffi gives Ferrovius a low, gruff voice and makes him a quick-tempered powerhouse, an ogre. Later, when he returns from the arena brandishing a bloody sword, he makes a wonderful effect not by howling, "Cut off this right hand," but by whispering it in self-horror. The director has undercut...
...Cioffi's performance compares favorably with the fine one given by Philip Bosco in the Festival's 1962 production of the play. It is not Cioffi's fault that the balance between Richard and Bolingbroke is upset, and that aspects of the latter's character are missing; for director Kahn has trimmed the text to three acts of 45 minutes each, and in the process omitted the entire Aumerle conspiracy with Boling-broke's attendant clemency...