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...Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made in Paris, Zanuck introduces a daring economy measure: by assigning two roles to each of his principal players (Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman), he gets six actors for the price of three. Unhappily, since there is no real reason in the story why three characters should look like three others, the customers spend so much time wondering who's who that they may stop caring what's what...
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus (fictional names for Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb) are wealthy, brilliant young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior...
...film's philosophy is open to debate, its psychiatry to ridicule, but its actors are open only to ovation. Orson Welles, frazzle-pated, barrel-bellied, hollow-eyed, creates a fetching caricature of the great trial lawyer, all fustian and a yard wide. Bradford Dillman, the Straus-Loeb, is alarmingly screw loose and frenzy free. But it is Dean Stockwell, as Steiner-Leopold, who dominates the drama. His intensity and insight do much to explain the character's homosexuality, do something to clarify his fearful crime...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...
Actress Carere is presented as a homebody who yearns to marry a nice young law student (Bradford Dillman). But his mother does not like her, and her mother gets upset at the sight of him. Only solution: pop off to the seaside with his rakish Uncle Luc (Rossano Brazzi). In the book, after Luc's wife (Joan Fontaine) discovers their affair, Dominique goes right on with him. On the screen, endowed with an honestly passionate heart and soul, Dominique can only tearfully apologize and slink back to the youthful boy friend. Franchise Sagan doubtless regards the movie with...