Word: kedrova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates and Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek...
...whereas Irene Papas was starved for passion and seething with it. As for the aging soubrette of a landlady who embarks on her last amorous voyage with that pirate of life Zorba, Maria Karnilova simply cannot provide the mixture of girlish coquetry, humor and faded carnality that made Lila Kedrova's film performance such a stunning achievement...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Zorba the Greek (1964). A grand bacchanalian bash based on a novel by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. Starring Anthony Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Alan Bates...
...point is hardly worth arguing. The script, based on Howard Fast's pseudonymous potboiler about a light-fingered socialite, soon degenerates into a droll call of ancient wheezes that add up to a 97-minute heh. The actors (Natalie Wood, Dick Shawn, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Lila Kedrova) try hard to laugh it up, but most of the time they look the way the audience feels: like geese stuffed with chestnuts...
...Chavez, a captain more likely to buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...