Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ulysses. The Homeric legend made (in Italy) into a foaming saga of sea adventure; with Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano (TIME...
Ulysses. The Homeric legend made (in Italy) into a foaming saga of sea adventure; with Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano (TIME...
Ulysses. The Homeric legend made (in Italy) into a foaming saga of sea adventure; with Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano (TIME...
Husky Cinemale Kirk (Ulysses) Douglas, luxuriantly equipped to play his second bearded film role in a row (as tortured Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh), was the hairy centerpiece of a trio of singers while rehearsing before a polio benefit on the terrace of Monte Carlo's Summer Sporting Club. His deep voice blended commendably with the husky baritone of Grandma Marlene Dietrich and the lilting tremolo of Italian Cinemactress Gina (The Wayward Wife) Lollobrigida...
...plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach for a Tommy gun instead of a sword. Yet, like the others, he often responds to Director Mario Camerini's neat combination of archaic flavor and modern pace...