Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exodus (Hollywood Studio Orchestra; United Artists). The most successful film score since. Bridge on the River Kwai, rendered in apocalyptic sound. Viennese-born Composer Ernest Gold, a veteran of two decades of film scoring (On the Beach and The Defiant Ones), knows better than most of his colleagues how to write a mystery in a web of strings and nostalgia in a flute's falling sigh. The film's haunting theme hints of a talent for better things...
This is a brilliant theme, and it leaves you with the same empty and puzzled feeling that Boulle's The Bridge on the River Kwai produced. But there are many things wrong with this play. The deputy seemingly turns from a fearless cynic to a jellyfish with startling rapidity, but his about-face is nothing compared to the prosecutor's. At the end of Act II, Poole is battling with a troubled conscience and trying to lead investigators away from evidence that tends to indict young Harold Rutland (played by George Grizzard). Soon after the beginning of Act III, however...
...sometime Scriptwriter Aldous Huxley (6 ft. 4 in., 143½ Ibs.), who looked like a long, gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman, they were all pursuing the traditional Hollywood ideal of a wealthy mind in a healthy (or at least good-looking) body...
...biggest laugh in the picture when he remarks, as the camera turns to see what he claims to see in Gina: "Behind those lovely eyes is the brain of a very clever woman." Suddenly, Last Summer (Horizon; Columbia), the end product of Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Spiegel's attempt to multiply a one-act play by Tennessee Williams into a full-length feature picture, may not be the greatest movie ever made, but one thing can definitely be said of it: it is the only movie that has ever offered the paying public...