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...Dove, a short, funny, successful American parody of Ingmar Bergman. It does what no genuine Bergman film has been able to do: bring us closer to Bergman. That's because it plays up all his most endearing traits (low-key lighting, throaty language, immense closeups, symbolism played to the hilt) without his most threatening: his faith...
Even though the secondary lines of suspense are lost (such as the battle between the hoods for the superior role in their relationship), I must give Arnold credit for playing the main plot line to the hilt...
...Chase Manhattan Bank, which loves to portray itself as the friend of borrowers big and little, last week played that role to the hilt. The bank, the nation's third largest, cut its prime rate-the interest charge to its best business customers for loans - from 61% to 6%. The repercussions were plentiful, and in part acrimonious...
...income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds...
...Robbins plays the Emperor to the hilarious hilt; and he comes over somewhat too ludicrous and undignified for my taste, though this is certainly one way to play him. It is undeniable that everyone will be grossly entertained by the prodigious and protracted cat-and-mouse chase with which the Emperor and the Lion climax the second act. It is inventive, fast, furious, and so athletic that, at the opening performance, the Emperor's august knee not surprisingly got skinned and began to bleed. When at last the Emperor brags, "I have subdued the beast," the supine Lion himself places...