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...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller- a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...lago of this interlude is a cadet officer named Jocko De Paris (Ben Gazzara), a rising young sadist who has already learned that it is not enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning...
...room sociology that permeated the book. He does learn a bit about what goes on inside a sadist-mostly, in this case, repressed homosexuality. Most of all, he gets a handsome introduction to two of Hollywood's most promising young men: Director Jack Garfein, 26, and Actor Ben Gazzara, 26, two products of Manhattan's Actors' Studio, who make their film debut with this picture. Garfein has directed the film more deftly than he staged the play on Broadway; he shows an impressive sense of story structure and scene timing, but rather less flair (in this film...
...Gazzara does a striking virtuoso job as Johnny, and Anthony Franciosa a rewarding one as his brother. But the top performance is Cinemactress Shelley Winters as the wife: she seems like some one honestly groping in a human drama rather than skillfully functioning in an uneven stage piece...
...scene of the play is the Mississippi Delta plantation of a lusty, crude, aging millionaire who does not know he is dying of cancer. He has two sons, one an utter mediocrity, scheming with his petty wife for the estate. Brick, the other son (Ben Gazzara) and father's favorite, has taken to drink and refuses himself to the wife he hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt...