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Dying Corpse. With a display of kasar, rebel Premier Sjafruddin called Bung Karno a coward "who strutted and wore medals but had never fought a war, a man who was so frightened that he wouldn't even go to the bathroom without a bodyguard." The rebels were also disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Lord. When a child dies, the mother smiles triumphantly. He has completed a risky voyage through a dark world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Game | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

The men who own Manhattan's 36 art houses were not impressed. "Look," said one of them, "I saw this picture at Cannes and I like it, but it wouldn't make money. It lacks entertainment, and besides, a little girl dies in the picture." Said another: "These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gold Standard | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

The heavy fragrance of that well-known man-eating orchid, romanticism, hangs about the story from the start, but in the culminating scenes, translated almost literally from the page to the screen, the odor is cloying. On her deathbed the heroine pleads piteously, "You won't do our things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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