Word: illusioners
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What the audience sees is not really simplicity, however, but deep theatrical cunning. Only gradually-and sometimes not at all-do theatergoers become aware that the cast is acting, without seeming to act. "Every movement of the body, even the turning of the pages, becomes important," explains Laughton. "You mustn...
Regardless of political and social change, the grand illusion still persists that students can find work in Europe, thereby financing travel expenditures.
On sober analysis, Dwight Taylor's screenplay, with its rich lather of plot manipulation and sentimentality, verges on soap opera. But George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens' direction is clean and uncluttered. Stevens has a camera magic that evokes a world of romantic illusion: the frustrated lovers...
A man who reputedly made $2,500,000 in his 35-year singing career, Martinelli lives comfortably in a midtown Manhattan hotel. He coaches a little, currently has high hopes for two of his pupils. His family is scattered: his wife is in Italy to be near their children (one...
Tangier is only too ready to oblige. Like bugs out of the woodwork, a string of unsavory characters creeps into Dyar's empty world. There is Hadija, an Arab prostitute, who gives him the illusion that he is capable of falling in love. There is Jack Wilcox, an American...