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...Actor Laurence Harvey, who was born in Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
...Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic where, to assuage his grief, he sires a son by an Eskimo maiden. In the meantime, the caddish Burton has ditched Actress Jones, a mere hotelkeeper's daughter, and married a millionaire's cold-faced daughter (Martha Hyer), who bears him a baby girl...
...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...
...just where the millions lie: in fictionalized history, resplendently costumed, sexed up, and heavily flavored with religion. There are sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod Antipas, "You thrill my inmost being." There is also the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by an offstage voice in soft-sell tones. There are stabbings, hurricanes, ambushes, chases, the miracles of Christ, racial conflict between Arabs and Jews, one case of polio...
Between the excellent Method acting of Academy Award Winner Joanne Woodward, 28, and the thinly silverplated style with which Martha Hyer, 34, attempts to replace Princess Grace, the town's new crop of females comes in assorted types and talents. Some examples...