Word: homolka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though most of the big scenes were shot on the cheap in Yugoslavia. More than 3,000 Yugoslav peasants and some 4,500 cavalrymen of the Yugoslav army are employed as camera fodder. To top it off, nine big names (Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne, Oscar Homolka, Agnes Moorehead, Helmut Dantine, Finlay Currie, Vittorio Gassman) have been stacked on the billboards like a packet of insurance policies...
...time is 1,000 years ago. Rain drums like a dirge on the crumbling ruins of the great temple gate called Rashomon in Kyoto. Huddling in its shadows are three birds of strange omen-a Buddhist priest, a simple woodcutter (Akim Tamiroff) and a cynical wigmaker (Oscar Homolka)-who croak and cluck chorus-fashion about a hideous crime and the baffling trial testimony that followed...
...whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
Roddy MacDowall, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Homolka and Boris Karloff in a dramatization of Joseph Conrad's eerie master piece, Heart of Darkness...
Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...