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...Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much of an art an actor, naturally trained to move smoothly, can make of moving without grace. The least satisfactory of the starring trio is Mel Ferrer, who displays more stiffness than grandeur. As portrayed by Oscar Homolka, the Russian commander, General Kutuzov, has considerably more moral force, particularly in a scene where he thanks God for the delivery of his country from danger after Napoleon withdraws from Moscow...
...maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an untidy, drowsy general; the other, a preening peacock who imagines he is an :agle...
...Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen as a fast, furious and funny comedy; at times it is all of these, but, continuously, none of them...
Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Oscar Homolka and Lisa Kirk co-star in Love Song...
...party is tagged with a different nationality and a different motive for climbing, i.e., for living. The climbers: a warmhearted Italian girl (Valli), a war-weary American (Glenn Ford), an unreconstructed Nazi (Lloyd Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand, divided we fall...