Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason why foreign films are popular among those who seek the sense of an artist's mind behind the completed work. There is such a single central intelligence behind La Strada: that of Federico Fellini, who wrote the screenplay (with a collaborator whose name the ticket-taking girl at the Brattle could not divulge), and directed. The questions that La Strada raises, then, resolve around Fellini. For me they are two: What is he getting at, with this superbly made story of two most human subhumans, and, why did he elect to take so long about...
...Italian opera of the verismo school. It resolves around a second-rate traveling strong man and his strange, dull-witted assistant and concubine. A tightrope walker laughs at the strong man and is kind to his slave, and the strong man kills him. In the end the girl dies, and the strong man is left groveling in remorse on a deserted beach reminiscent of the one where he found...
...which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...
Mathias stays on the island for three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Girl on the Run, a new detective series, has a main character no more novel than an ex-OSS officer. But with Marion (See Here Private . . .) Hargrove to write the script, the show has its moments...