Word: lancasterism
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Just as sitting-rooms are sometimes decorated to bring out the quality of a central picture or object d'art, Vera Cruz seems to have been filmed to highlight the brilliance of Burt Lancaster's teeth. At any rate, they are good-looking teeth.
Despite his blinding smile, Lancaster does not try to deceive anyone about the black heart in his breast. Quite the contrary; he and Gary Cooper spend most of the movie trying to prove that each is a dirtier guy than the other. But they so obviously relish their parts as...
All this amiable villainy centers around a red coach containing both three million dollars in gold and Denise Darcel. The gold, which the Mexican Emperor Maximillian is sending to Paris, has various attractions. It could help the patriotic Mexican rebels overthrow foreign dictatorship, it could help Cooper rebuild his southern...
Vera Cruz (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists), billed as "The Battle of the Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets...
The Plantagenets really lived it up. They dined on roast lark, ginger fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such...