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Richard Boone, Rita Moreno and Jess Hahn play their laconic roles with subtle variations of character that are worth pages of dialogue. But Marlon Brando draws them all together and establishes the tone of the whole film. Playing a kind of hipster-hood-hero, Brando can chill the blood with a smile or describe dimensions with a move of his hand. Since he provided the driving force behind One-Eyed Jacks, of which he was both star and director in 1961, Brando has essayed a series of character roles in a succession of failures: a brooding cowpoke in The Appaloosa...
...recent Friday afternoon, a 1959 green Oldsmobile was parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...
...Emperor's son Rudolf is impersonated by Omar Sharif, an Egyptian actor who plays an Austrian prince about as successfully as he played an American hood in Funny Girl. Rudolf, a wastrel who sasses his old man, takes frequent injections of morphine "for my migraines" and spends an unconscionable amount of his time with showgirls and socialists. Line (father to son): "In one respect you've always been consistent. You've disappointed...
...freedom as portrayed in the Old Testament. Yet, like many conservative white Protestants, he was taught to scorn Jews as a people cursed by deicide. "All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews," recalled the late Novelist Rich ard Wright, writing of his Southern boy hood in Black Boy, "not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were 'Christ killers.' We black children ? seven, eight and nine years of age ? used to run to the Jew's store and shout...
...rent gouging, overpricing and selling shoddy merchandise. In his now-classic study of Chicago's Negro ghetto, Black Metropolis, Sociologist St. Clair Drake points out that as early as 1938 the area was seething with anti-Semitic resentment of Jewish merchants, who then owned three-fourths of the neighbor hood stores. "As the most highly vis ible and most immediately available white persons in the community," he wrote, "Jewish merchants tend to become the symbol of the Negroes' verbal attack on all white businessmen...