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...moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise and honorable man has lied about membership in the Communist party. The issues are cast in fifties terms, but the "Profiles in Courage" feeling is universal. The chief attraction lies in a stunning performance by Charles Laughton as Seab Cooley, the archetypal Southern Senator, who, like Sam Ervin, turned out to be a fairly wise man. The climactic scene, when the Senate votes on the nomination, is as exciting as anything that happened during Watergate. Absolutely staggering...
...joins the ranks of people who are "equal," even teaching the Americans a little bit of European style along the way. Wonderful stuff. Edward Everett Horton was Ruggles in 1923, and Bob Hope's 1950 Fancy Pants took its cue from the story. But the real Ruggles was Charles Laughton in 1935--the one to be shown here--in a shambling, sad, brilliant performance...
Boston Film Festival. A very respectable series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film, Monty Python, and the new Bunuel. Call the Orson Welles for the schedule...
Spartacus (1960). An early Kubrick film with plenty of pomp, violence and massive crowd scenes. Screenplay by black-listed writer Dalton Trumbo. With Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov. Ch. 56, 8 p.m. Color, 3 3/4 hours...
...Miserables, with Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Fredric March, at 8 p.m., and Stanley Kramer's Ship of Foolswith Vivien Leigh and Lee Marvin, at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March...