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Cyrano de Bergerac. Jose Ferrer in an adaptation that somewhat magnifies the faults of the Rostand classic without dimming its virtues (TIME...
Cyrano de Bergerac. José Ferrer in a cinemadaptation that somewhat magnifies the faults of the Rostand classic without dimming its virtues (TIME...
...wooed his adored Roxane for another man. If it is not all that admirers of the play might wish, it is more than most of them might dare to expect. Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer keeps faith with the unabashedly romantic spirit of the original, and Actor Jose Ferrer, who gave Broadway its most recent (1946) production of the play, is the very embodiment of Rostand's self-sacrificing, self-dramatizing hero...
Audiences, traditionally willing to meet this impossibly romantic classic half way, may have to go a bit further this time. Their surest reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into...
Surgeon Gary Grant, vacationing with his wife (Paula Raymond) in a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...