Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sex-driven movie, transliteration of a play by Italy's late, earnest Ugo Betti, would be far better if it gave its characters time to indulge in a few other natural functions, eating and sleeping, for instance. The English subtitles are as unnecessary to the story as its French dialogue. All is really said in sign language, and it cannot be mistaken...
...earnest tribute: "A woman's charm and attraction are more effective than force of arms. Ilouhi . . . played the part of a Talleyrand among the Moi's." In Jungle Mission (the English edition of Mission Speciale en Foret Moi, published by Editions France-Empire} Rene Riesen sets out to describe the guerrilla war in Viet Nam (1946-54), in which carnivo rous insects play almost as important a role as the cunning Viet Minh. There are exciting interludes in which elephants are hunted by day and tiger, buffalo, roebuck, boar and deer shot by flashlight at night...
...Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again." As an earnest of his good faith, Nasser at last had released two Britons accused (and long since acquitted) of spying on him in Cairo, promised to pay pensions to Britons formerly employed by the Egyptian government, and even invited BOAC planes back to Cairo airport. He seemed a little surprised that all this did not immediately...
...file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous-woman voice cribbed from old Libby Holman records"; a bristling general "who had never heard a gun fired in earnest since the Boxer Rebellion"; and a "king-sized Shirley Temple...
...cast, headed by Jean Concannon as Cressida and William Siebert as Troilus, gave an earnest but uneven performance. At times, overacting marred scenes that required emotional intensity rather than emotional exhibition. Cressida often shouted, like a querulous child in a tantrum. Siebert gave a sensitive interpretation of Troilus, showing an understanding of his composite personality. Regina Oliver was commendable as Cassandra, although she needed more variety of voice. William Harris, as Cressida's father, suffered most from overacting and a reliance on stick gestures. The Prince Regent, Hector, was strongly reminiscent of Marshall Tito, but needed a more imperial...