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From Jean Renoir we expected more. In his 1938 masterpiece, The Grand Illusion, Renoir established the pattern for future prison escape movies. The Elusive Corporal, set in a World War II camp, certainly should not be the trite and unamusing bundle of cliches that it turned out to be. The...
Grand Illusion evoked nostalgia for the comfortable 1914 world that charmed the audiences of the thirties and continues to charm viewers today. Renoir's screenplay innovations (like the famous "Marseillaise" Scene that Micheal Curtiz lifted for Casablanca) were well supported by three superb performances from Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin, and...
The Maids, first produced in 1946 and revised in 1948, remains Genet's finest dramatic achievement to date. The burden falls on two actresses, who are servants that play at being each other and at being their mistress. The work's wheels-within-wheels make-believe yields a profound and...
Frontiers of Sound. Since he is both a Negro and blind, Kirk is conditioned to frustration, but he resents any suggestion that he is a musical freak. And his tautly phrased solos on individual instruments at Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate last week refuted any illusion that he is...
Cheating. Any agreement with the Soviets assumes inherent risks. Moscow could secretly prepare a massive series of atmospheric tests while the U.S. is lulled into the illusion of security (which is just about what happened when the Kremlin broke a three-year moratorium on testing in September 1961). With or...