Word: filming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the realistic force of the film is derived from the story's phsical setting. Dassin has drawn on the Greek town and its people, utilizing the inherent despair of Greek folk-songs to express the despair of the characters, the material poverty of the citizens to underline their poverty of hope. Dassin has also exploited the aged and hardened faces of his Greek extras by using their expresisons to punctuate his dialogue...
Jacques Natleau wisely chooses to use his camera as an omniscient narrator. Rather than expressing the attitude of one character, Natleau impartially examines all motivations, significantly lending the film ambiguity. In siding with neither the Christ nor the Pilate, he leaves the audience with the task of choosing the hero, if there...
...audience is somewhat confused as to where worthiness lies within the film, it is not confused as to the worth of the film. Dassin has made a powerful movie of a powerful novel. Intellectually and emotionally compelling, the movie is a magnificent relief from aimless entertainment. It is one of the few recent movies that can qualify...
Then too there is Clark Gable. No director has ever been presumptuous enough to ask "The King" to act, but his presence alone gives any film the atmosphere of Hollywood's glorious pre-Method past. Gable's voice may croak a little, but he still has the confidence of a man who knows that so long as he goes on playing The King no one will dare play...
Sapphire (Rank; Universal-International) is a semiprecious British attempt to admix a sociological problem drama with a flat-out murder mystery. The jewel of the title is a beautiful, auburn-haired girl; as the film begins, she is found lying face up on the hard ground of Hampstead Heath with six knife wounds around her heart...