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...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...
...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
...Shaped Room marks Leslie Caron's successful transition from gamin to grownup. Her love scenes with hawk-faced Tom Bell are vivid; her way of mumbling silently to herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...
Back in Bean's Bag (Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry; Columbia) was intended as an epochal encounter between Hawkins' tenor sax and Terry's virtuoso trumpet. Then something went wrong; the true soloist turns out to be Tommy Flanagan on piano. During Hawk's flights of fancy, a wildly distorted recording balance hides the horn behind the accompaniment...