Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best Director: Frank Perry for David and Lisa, Pietro Germi for Divorce -Italian Style, David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia (he won an Oscar for directing The Bridge on the River Kwai), Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker, and Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird...
...more difficult role than his Oscar performance of Bridge on the River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point of personal sacrifice, but as Sinclair he must be selfish to the detriment of all that he loves. The Colonel claims to love his battalion, yet be lets personal spite bring dissention, disgrace, and finally tragedy down upon it; he pronounces his affection for his daughter (Susannah York), yet he treats...
...since his death in 1935 the legend of Lawrence has inspired scores of books. Now for the first time it has inspired a film, and quite a film it is. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the men who made The Bridge on the River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras, six famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins...
...know." And he knows quite a few. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy play supporting roles to his T.E. Lawrence in a script written by Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons) and directed by David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai). All agree that Peter O'Toole is as good as he seems to think he is. "If I wasn't sure I could deliver the bloody goods, I would get off the bloody stage," says Peter. "Any actor who doesn't feel he's potentially...
...into The Second Longest Day. But there is no cause for alarm in the lofty moral tones of Carl Foreman's third inaugural. Foreman, by his own definition, is just a born failure. The Victors should be just as tremendous a flick as The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Guns of Navarone. If the message comes through, it will be prepaid...