Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, will interest Westerners chiefly because it lets the light of day shine on some ideas new to the insular world of Soviet cinema. Director Grigori Chukhrai, who proved his talent with the sensitive, romanticized Ballad of a Soldier, tells a tale of illicit love-and tells it straight, without prudish apologies, against a background of post-World War II political tyranny. The off-screen villain of the piece is Joseph Stalin...
...Baker is involved in a scandal of major proportions, and the Senate plainly feared that some of its own members are in it with him. Yet the Senate's self-protective silence had an unintended effect, creating a climate in which talk and speculation flourished with tales of illicit sex, influence peddling and fast-buck financial deals...
...parson. But as an artist he was something unprecedented in cinema: a metaphysical poet whose pictures are chapters in a continuing allegory of the progress of his own soul in its tortured and solitary search for the meaning of life, for the experience of God. In his early films (Illicit Interlude, Naked Night), Bergman struggles to free himself from the fascination of the mother, the incestuous longing for innocence, safety, death. In the dazzling comedies of his second period (A Lesson in Love, Smiles of a Summer Night), he fights the inevitable war between men and women. In The Seventh...
...Small World of Sammy Lee. As the M.C. of a Soho strip joint, Anthony Newley oozes innuendo, juggles illicit deals, and runs runs runs. A satisfactory if often sordid film...
...Small World of Sammy Lee. Anthony Newley, of Stop the World-/ Want to Get Off, has gotten off at a Soho bump-and-grindery where he is the frantically busy master of ceremonies with several illicit deals on the side. As the fast-running Sammy, Newley is wickedly sly, inwardly terrified, foolishly hopeful in this sordid and often biting slice-of-life film...