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...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...
...Musongo last week, a middle-aged potentate stared dully as a dance troupe of local girls frantically undulated their hips before him to the rhythm of pounding drums. Slouched on a throne consisting of a grey army blanket thrown over a schoolroom chair, his feet resting on a leopard skin, the Lunda tribe's newly installed 25th Mwata Yambo (Great Chief) received the adulation of his people. His ascension is an interesting case history of the tribalism that is still deeply rooted in the Congo; for on a continent where firebrand leaders talk constantly of forging ahead, Mwata Yambo...
...Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece...
...livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
...Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film-scenically beautiful, dramatically satisfying, philosophically profound-about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster. Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece...