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...Tight, by Director Jules Dassin, is really two films. One is a groping attempt to comprehend the current state of black militancy. The other is a creaky pastiche of John Ford's 1935 masterpiece, The Informer. The analogy of the Irish and Negro rebels is less natural than it is facile, but in Dassin's hands, there is little attempt to translate the classic into contemporary cinema. Instead, he has simply sought to make a negative of the original, with shades of black instead of grades of white...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:50 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin in their catchy-tuned film caricature Never on Sunday (1960), the fevered brow from which the current Broadway hit musical, lllya Darling, sprang...
Illya Darling is a 15-watt musical with one trace of Greek fire-Melina Mercouri. She plays furiously across the footlights to keep audiences from realizing that there is nothing behind them. Flaccidly adapted by Jules Dassin from his film Never on Sunday, the stage version lacks the three elements that gave the movie a certain credibility as a holiday of the senses, the Greek...
...What makes a man attractive?" a reporter asked. "If he likes you," replied Melina. "What makes a woman sexy?" If she enjoys to make love." With that explained Melina and her husband, Director Jules Dassin, whom she married last spring after they had lived together for ten years, hurried back to Manhattan to get on with rehearsals for Illya Darling. Opening on Broadway next March, the play is of course directed by Jules, with Melina trolloping through her old Never on Sunday role...
...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...