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...Tumbler (by Benn W. Levy) was the sixth Broadway production to open in February and close within a week. A harrowingly pretentious verse drama, The Tumbler was the deadliest of the six, while also providing the most newsworthy casualties: Director Laurence Olivier, Actors Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris and Martha Scott, and a playwright who once wrote Springtime for Henry...
...Tumbler, a verse play by Benn W. Levy, is directed by Sir Laurence Olivier. Farmer Charlton Heston meets Rosemary Harris in a barn. After they make love at first sight, she learns that he is her stepfather and the possible murderer of her father. As the mystery plays out, wrote the Boston Globe critic, "Levy's verse-speech sometimes glows with beauty, often is shrouded in mists of obscurity . . . But his play has power...
...should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
...Best Years of Our Lives') Wyler, has fished a whale of a picture, the biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles. The story of Ben-Hur is reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave...
...period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits of the face on the $20 bill. And Actor Brynner does little more than bound about parapets-probably on the theory that a man who has produced...