Word: crichton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andromeda Strain, Crichton...
...ANDROMEDA STRAIN by Michael Crichton. 295 pages. Alfred Knopf...
...daring acrobatics, the inexorable dragnet-are all but incidental. The film's most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration...
Consider that rogue Italo Bombolini, the shrewd, Machiavellian mayor who outwits half the German high command and successfully spirits 1,320,000 bottles of vintage vermouths and robust red wines from the Nazis in Robert Crichton's best-selling 1966 novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Indeed a difficult part for an actor, calling for a subtle combination of gentle foolishness and hardheaded Italian moxie. So naturally Producer Stanley Kramer picked an Irishman, born in Mexico, who hails from Hollywood: Anthony Quinn, 52, who has been studiously preparing for his role as the rascally wine merchant by tippling Cinzano...