Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, Doctor No has just opened in London and is scheduled for release in the U.S. early next year. To Fleming fans, the dark hood looks of Scottish Actor Sean Connery were somewhat disturbing; they do not suggest Fleming's tasteful pagan so much as a used-up gigolo. Bond would never speak with a cigarette dangling from his urbane lips, for instance. But his lines are not contra-Bond: "It would be a shame to waste that Dom Perignon '55 by hitting me with it," says Doctor No. "I prefer...
...Rolls boasts twin horizontal headlights, a lower hood, wider grille and hotter engine (around 270 h.p.). For the select minority who can afford Rolls prices (from $15,655 in the U.S. for the Silver Cloud II to $27,617 for the Park Ward), this was big news. But for Rolls-Royce Ltd. itself, autos are now little more than a sideline. Since World War II, the company has diversified into everything from rocket engines to nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. By so doing, it has become one of Britain's notable growth companies; since 1950 its sales have soared...
...story has its lapses and the film its faults. Actor Quinn, though generally effective, sometimes sounds more like a punk out of Cicero than a hood from the Holy Land. And Director Richard Fleischer, impelled by Producer Dino de Laurentiis, has wasted time on spectacle that had more usefully been spent on theme Even so, the film is continuously alive and what keeps it alive is the burning sincerity of its search for the reality of God and the meaning of the hero's singular and apocalyptic life...
Finally, the Shah climbed onto the hood of an army truck to list the villagers' immediate needs. There were only 400 clustered around him; 3.000 of Buin's 6,500 people had perished in one horrifying minute. The earthquake that demolished Buin and 100 other villages had already accounted for some 10.000 deaths; hundreds more were reported daily as masked Iranian soldiers shoveled through the debris in search of bodies...
...experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right but begrimed in an unhealthy context, which is what the film is trying to express from start to finish. Consistently, Courtenay preserves a delicate equilibrium between sympathy and repulsion; he manages to suggest a worthless hood who might have been a gifted contributor to another society-not a nice chap gone wrong, but rather a congenitally wrong one who might have gone right. Because this sort of role is so easy as a cliche (the whore with the 14-carat heart), it is extraordinarily difficult...