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Born. To Alain Delon, 29, French cinemactor, best known for his five-year romance with Romy Schneider; and Francine Canovas, 24, Spanish-born photographer, whom he married Aug. 13: a boy; in Hollywood...
Love and marriage? For five years Film Stars Romy Schneider, 25, and Alain Delon, 28, had one without the other. But last week Romy returned to their Paris apartment from Hollywood, and there, instead of Alain, was a bouquet of red roses and a note: "Ma chérie, je regrette...
...swift flow of images turns to honey from this point on; although the scenes are even richer, too much sweetness at too slow a pace becomes cloying. Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) decides that Tancredi (Alain Delon) should marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the richly dowered daughter of the ambitious mayor, rather than his own shy daughter, Concetta. The last third of the film is spent at a ball for the couple. An excess of eating, drinking, and dancing causes lethargy for the guests and unfortunately for the viewer as well...
...refined in Rififi (1956), things are the other way round: attractive criminals get girls, gats and a clockwork plan for a caper, and the audience roots for them to The End. French clockwork, however, is not always reliable, and this amoral little melodrama starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon ticks only intermittently...
...time loser dourly dedicated to his craft, Gabin comes out of prison and plunges right into a plot to lift 1,000,000,000 francs from the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. But suspense-wise the film fails to break even until Accomplice Delon takes up a tommy gun, crawls on his belly through an air conditioning duct that appears approximately as long and tortuous as the Grande Corniche, and shinnies down an elevator cable into the casino's vault-just in time to break the bank...