Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRAY DOG. A rookie detective (Toshiro Mifune) tracks a killer through the Tokyo underworld in a newly imported 1949 melodrama by Director Akira Kurosawa, which stirs up the rubble of postwar Japan...
...that Ruby woke him at 3 a.m. the day after Kennedy was shot, seemed "very, very solemn, very moody." Dallas Rabbi Hillel Silverman, who had known Ruby for ten years, recalled that one day last year Ruby suddenly appeared on Silverman's front yard with half a dozen dogs. Said the rabbi: "Suddenly he began to cry. He said, 'I'm unmarried,' and, pointing to one dog, he said, 'This is my wife,' and, pointing to all the dogs, he said, These are my children.' Then he sobbed and cried." Silverman considered Ruby...
...hanging on like lampreys, shooting miles of film in close study of directors and stars practicing their trade. The cameras were soon recording an insider's view. Watching Swiss Director Bernhard Wicki at work in Rome on The Visit is like watching a big, half-mad sheep dog forever nipping at the flock, loping in circles, barking "Go home!" at people in his way. Ingrid Bergman is every inch an actress as she sits in a makeup chair and tells the man with the eye shadow how some magazine is obviously out to sink a knife into actresses...
...Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune. But the older work, aglow with zest and freshness, displays abundantly two qualities of Kurosawa's ripening genius: the ability to make moving pictures move, and an aching compassion for his fellow...
...week. In those three little words De Sica reveals what a sly old dog he is-while the audience is howling at Marcello, the director is secretly smiling at Sophia. Beneath a rather juicy sense of fun he conceals a very dry sense of humor. Dry is the word for Marcello's humor too-time and again he gives up a laugh to get a grin. Smart feller. In this picture the laughs belong to Sophia...