Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained discussion of ideas in dialogue. The words sing, the ideas go off like fireworks. It is like a great parliamentary debate in which the members orate arias with the omnipresent Shaw in the Speaker's chair. Behind...
...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
CENTRAL CINEMA I, King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45, Wknd Mat 3:10. Devil by the Tail, 8:15, Wknd...
CENTRAL CINEMA II. King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45. Wknd Mat 3:10. Devil by the Tall, 8:15 Wknd...
CENTRAL I. King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45, weekend mat. 3:10; Devil by the Tail, 8:15, weekend...