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...coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Patusans & Platitudes | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...your little practical joke of not showing two of Les Girls [Aug. 21], let's have the pictures of Dahlia Lavi and Catherine Spaak, or else I'll write to the S.P.C.T.S.L.G. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Some of Les Girls). S. KARNI Albuquerque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 1964 | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...former student at the Max Reinhardt Institute in Vienna, who played hooky from school to do a tiny bit in The Journey with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, went on to play in The Victors, and stars with Charlton Heston in Major Dundee. Israel's Dahlia Lavi, 21, learned to dance in Sweden, has made films in France, had her first U.S. movie role in Two Weeks in Another Town, with Kirk Douglas. Lavi, who speaks English, Swedish, French, Hebrew, Italian and Arabic, learned Chinese and Cambodian for her role in the movie of Conrad's Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Les Girls | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...takes a modest job in the dubbing room. But all at once the screenqueen (Cyd Charisse) who drove him to distraction and destruction turns up in his hotel and starts tormenting him again. Desperate, he soothes his shattered nerves with a dose of nature's own narcotic (Dahlia Lavi), and when the director has a heart attack he offers to finish the picture for auld lang syne. But when the actor shows a real flair for directing, the invalid flies into a snit, accuses him of "stealing my picture," orders him thrown off the set, smears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pay Dirt | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...final sequence is the most frankly chauvinistic and the least convincing: hard-bitten Arieh Lavi captures a wounded Egyptian soldier whom he then discovers to be an ex-Nazi officer. Except for this flawed sequence, Britain's Director Thorold (Angel Street) Dickinson has imaginatively caught the almost tribal ferocity of a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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