Word: delone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). The Leopard (1963). Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in this motion-picture adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel about social turmoil in Italy at the time of Garibaldi...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon star in The Leopard (1963), a tale of Italy's aristocracy during the 1860s...
...moviemakers substantial quantities of war material, cordoned off large areas of Paris while the cameras were rolling, and sponsored the U.S. premiere. The producers for their part contributed a big budget and a vast cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Tony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles...
...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
...Belmondo seems to see the ludicrous futility in it all--he looks as if he were going to wink at any moment. Leslie Caron perfects her crying technique, the one where she ever so emotionally quivers her upper lip over those embarrassing buck teeth and turns bravely liquid. Alain Delon's limp wrist isn't quite that of an underground leader and Kirk Douglas's General Patton is something to behold. About the only activity for the audience (aside from falling asleep) is identifying the innumerable faces that appear in cameo roles throughout the film, but perhaps most sterling...