Word: kassler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anatomy of Love (Lux Film Cines; Kassler), an Italian film that tells five short stories, is at its best in the two that star Vittorio De Sica: as a count who has lost everything but his nobility ("I'd decided not to outlive my youth no matter how rich I was"), and as a Naples bus driver, a laughing hedonist who has developed a talent for catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven...
...Must Die (Kassler) is one of the most powerful religious statements the screen has made in many a year. The fact has its ironic implications. The man who made the film, a 46-year-old New Yorker named Jules Dassin, was blacklisted in Hollywood after a witness told a congressional investigating committee that he was a Communist. When he worked in the U.S., Dassin was regarded as nothing more than a capable technician of suspense (Naked City, Brute Force). Rififi, a thriller he made in France after five years without work, revealed him as a superb one. He Who Must...
...Razzia (Kassler) is a harrowingly realistic gangster picture-perhaps the most painstaking study of criminal methods that has ever been made in an entertainment film...