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Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Pär Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and is played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn...
...These crude Stone Age beginnings, developed and glorified by U.S. know-how, have produced the trading stamp. Like Og's tiger teeth, trading stamps are a nuisance, and expensive for the retailer, but they give the housewife so much pleasure that she is willing to pay for it. First there is the sticky-tongued fun of pasting them in books and watching the books accumulate. Then there is the happy trip to the trading center with its shining array of treasures that seem to be free. And then the glow of self-congratulation at shrewd and prudent shopping...
...forces stood thirty-five miles inside Indian territory at the time, the offer was rightly rejected. Had Peiping been willing to negotiate a reasonable settlement in the past, it could have done so. In the light of the Communists' premediated aggression, their latest proposal can only be regarded as crude opportunism...
Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Par Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and is played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn...
...what is wrong with The Longest Day? Plenty. Too many of the lines just lie there. Too many of the actors just stand there. Too much of the direction ("I ended up directing about 65% of the picture myself," Zanuck says) has no direction. Furthermore, the film is technically crude. In one crucial sequence the process shots are so badly matched that the mighty invasion fleet looks like a silly flotilla of peanut shells in a puddle. Worse yet. the film is confusing, and war's natural confusion is compounded. For want of legible maps, for want of sensible...