Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz's direction is too heavy-handed for this light-fingered subject. The picture has several good chases through Istanbul and Ankara, but the film adaptation of onetime German Attaché L. C. Moyzisch's 1950 book, Operation Cicero, stresses screenplay rather than gunplay. Sample: when Cicero delivers his first batch of film to Moyzisch, he says pompously: "Destiny has held out its hand to you tonight. Take it and hold...
Cafe éIstanbul (Sun. 9:15 p.m., ABC). Drama of intrigue, starring Marlene Dietrich...
...Istanbul...
Some radio listeners last week tried to puzzle their way through Café Istanbul's chaotic plot. But others were content just to listen to the clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich, who opened her new radio series as the Café's owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German...
...other thing" gets a thorough workout in Café Istanbul, as it has in most of her movies. Broadway may get its first chance to see it this fall, if Marlene decides to do Jacques Deval's new play, Samarkand. As for television: "I don't want to get into it yet. I'm waiting for it to get better. After all, I'll have to defend my title...