Word: clift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best film of the year, sweeping with it almost as many subsidiary Oscars as 1959's Ben-Hur (which set a record by copping eleven). West Side Story's George Chakiris and Rita Moreno won the awards for best supporting actor and actress. They beat out Montgomery Clift and Judy Gar land of Judgment at Nuremberg, which probably reflects the voters' disapproval of major stars lusting after minor Oscars. In an upset almost as surprising as Sophia's, Switzerland's Maximilian Schell (Nuremberg} was named the best actor of the year...
...thus bypasses no opportunity to remind America that crusading Anti-Communism has been used before as a means of encroaching on political freedom. Many liberal intellectuals have discounted the seriousness of the film because it relies on Hollywood's popular technique and personnel (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift turn in superb performances). These people should realize that there is a wealth of professional film-making skill in Hollywood, capable of more power and subtlety than any other cinema in the world...
Director Kramer has stacked seven portentous names (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift) above his portentous title-four of them are grossly miscast, but the customers won't realize that until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller...
...opposite Vivien Leigh, he has just made The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' only novel, directed by José Quintero. Top directors, in short, consider him the best of the new young leading men. With a facial and vocal suggestion of Montgomery Clift and mannerisms of James Dean, he is the latest incumbent in the line of arrogant, attractive, hostile, moody, sensitive, selfconscious, bright, defensive, ambitious, stuttering, self-seeking, and extremely talented actors who become myths before they...
Unfortunately, Miller tends to abuse his symbolism, and almost always clogs fine scenes with impassioned hyperbole or artless redundacy. Only one short episode escapes exaggeration: Montgomery Clift, a battered rodeo rider, telephoning his mother to say that he is alive and well. In contrast to this, there is the climactic scene, where Gable wrestles a stallion to the ground, proves his human strength, then cuts the animal loose. Here, Miss Monroe murmurs stupidly to the horse, "Go home," thus burlesquing the very impact that Miller had achieved...