Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the clock and throughout the year, every 16 hours the Japanese movie industry completes a feature. Full of samurai swords, gangster gunfire, even Japanese cowboys short in the saddle, the movies are fed to the most ravenous audiences in the world. Some theaters actually book quadruple features. Although the country has been in a cecilbedelirium ever since it first saw The Ten Commandments, about the only type of film not made in Japan has been the religious epic. On location near Kyoto, the Daiei Motion Picture Co. is taking care of that-with The Life of Buddha...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...
Beloit, Wis., Court Theater: The Gilded Clock, a modern Alcestis by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, professor of speech and drama at the University of Wisconsin...
...aspiring bandits are all set to clock Ihe roulette action and flash the data to MAX, when suddenly-quick now, what next?-a beautiful chick pops into the room. She is Brigid Bazlen, a cute, twitchy little trick who does most of her acting with her eyebrows. Then in pops Paula Prentiss, a tall, gawkily gorgeous brunette who is, as one girl must be in every properly run comedy, helplessly nearsighted. She is an old flame of Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted...
...wonder at what exists; he shares it. From the seven tons of bells in Munich's New Town Hall to the address of the oldest house (No. 5 Burgstrasse), he makes his facts sound like discoveries and his Munich sausages appetizing enough to nibble. Edinburgh, with its floral clock, riot of tartans, and Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, gives Sasek's artistry more scope. This superior junior travel guide deserves a special skirl of the bagpipes...