Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Columbia) following a strong current trend in Hollywood, was filmed mostly on location -in this case, the harshly beautiful city streets and countryside of Israel. But unlike most such movies, this one manages to set some believable people in motion against its real backgrounds. A once famed German juggler (Kirk Douglas), mentally unbalanced as a result of having seen his wife and two children killed in a Nazi concentration camp, comes to Israel in 1949 as a D.P. His unreasoned fear of authority leads him to strike a policeman who asks for his identification papers. Thinking he has killed...
...screenplay, Michael Blankfort has wisely lopped away some of the over-melodramatic incidents of his 1952 novel to create a convincing chase story with vivid topographical and psychological landscapes. Kirk Douglas in the title role makes an affecting individual of the D.P. in flight from the law and himself. He is alternately cocky and wisecracking, lonely and obsessed by fears. As Yael, the sabra (native-born Israeli) girl who comes to love the juggler and helps set him on the road to recovery, Italian Actress Milly Vitale is a plumply pretty figure dressed in shorts and lugging a rifle...