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Mountain climbing is a symbol of man's loftiest aspirations: a test of mettle, a purification of the soul, a reach for the heavens. George Leigh Mallory, asked why he wished to climb Mount Everest, solemnly replied, "Because it is there." If asked the same question, the most recent adventurers to tackle the peak would probably respond differently: "Because we want to beat the guy from the other country...
...performances by and large doggedly recreate the characters' hopelessly grim environment--even at the cost of a few emotional deadends. Leigh Montayne takes the part of Len and turns it into a believable, if curiously passive portrait of a nice guy just too intent on finishing last. In contrast, as his rival Fred, Frank W. Leupold enters a stylish, occasionally overly malignant performance. As Mary, the mother of Len's girlfriend, Nora Jacobson is most convincing, a catch-all of stray hairs and wasted spirits. Rounding out the household. Lynne Breslin and Richard Christenson are no less relenting...
There are, however, two very good reasons for seeing the film: Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. After years of watching the sad products of a dissipating career, it is almost shocking to see Brando young again, so intensely attractive and commanding. Casting Vivien Leigh as Blanche is one of those very occasional instances where a film star assumed a stage role and did it more than justice; she is superb. Williams put Blanche through quite a lot--probably too much to be credible--yet Leigh somehow conveys her tired, neurasthenic hopelessness, her mania for illusion. The errors which were made...
Outstanding performances were turned in yesterday's game against the Indians by Leigh Hogan and Jim Thomas; each had two goals in the contest...
Yeats' rough beast again? No, Kazan's - a shaggy stage prop animated by mechanical grunts and dramatizing the sort of pseudo realism that Vivien Leigh may have had in mind when she once described Kazan as "the kind of man who sends a suit out to be cleaned and rumpled...