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...prostituted his writing talents for the Communists and commits suicide when threatened with exposure, seems to be a combination of William K. Sherwood and Clifford Odets. Mickey, who decides to name all his leftist pals before the House Un-American Activities Committee, is stage and film director Elia Kazan (this act ruptured for some years the close friendship between Miller and Kazan). Ludwig Reiner, the confidant whose name Maggie invokes from time to time, is patently Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors' Studio and Marilyn Monroe's father-confessor...
...play is magnificently served by the meticulous staging of Elia Kazan and the stunning acting of the new Lincoln Center repertory company. The result is a kind of stylistically consistent ensemble playing such as we have not seen surpassed in this country since the movie On the Waterfront, also directed by Kazan. Right from the opening polyphonic susurrus, no detail is unimportant. Kazan may underline the similarity of the reactions to Quentin by his two vastly different wives through instructing Quentin to push both of them to the floor simultaneously; or he may devise a subtle background counterpoint against...
Shot on location in Greece and Turkey, the movie pays respectful tribute to those sere landscapes that feed souls but starve bellies. More eloquent than a land are the faces of its people. Kazan feelingly catches the poetry of peasants, which sometimes works against him because his native extras emanate an ancient sadness only hinted at by the professionals playing at stage center. Awkward dubbing mars the film too, for the disembodied voices on the sound track draw attention to themselves...
...prostitute. He is shot and left for dead after falling in with a band of insurrectionists. One compelling scene shows the rebels' bodies being flung into the sea, while their women, swathed in black, watch from the hillside. Here is the texture of tragedy. But too often Kazan seems so intent on making his movie move that he dissipates pity and terror in orgies of cinema technique, restlessly blurring the action with camera acrobatics...
...trousers and take a nap and the women will muzz-muzz in the kitchen." Having no taste for muzz-muzz, Stavros solves his problem another way: he becomes the boy lover of an American rug dealer's alcoholic wife. "In America," he says, "I will be washed clean." Kazan cuts to waves breaking over a ship...