Word: lily
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skill. Jan de Hartog's The Four-poster, a series of lovely vignettes of married life, came off moderately well in the hands of Tad Danielewski and Sylvia Daneel; but the play really cries out for polished husband-and-wife teams like Hume Cronyn-Jessica Tandy and Rex Harrison-Lili Palmer...
...main characters, Lili (Sonia), Rene Brunel (Raskolnikov), Nicole Brunel (Dounia) and Inspecteur Gallet (Porfiry), act their way through the famous intellectual-kills-pawnbroker-and-suffers plot with a considerable degree of accomplishment. Robert Hossein as Rene seems to suffer a bit too dramatically but this is probably in the novel and becomes grating only when it actually has to be seen on the screen. Marina Vlady is properly wistful and ineffectual as Lili, the embodiment of the beautiful soul who becomes a prostitute to feed the family which her stepfather has deserted, and Ulla Jacobssen is excellent in the less...
...novel Dostoevsky refers to Raskolnikov's "gradual regeneration," all, of course, through great suffering. The movie ends with a church hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and an angelic smile on her face. This latter is more visually absurd than the former, but both are intellectually unsatisfactory in the way they warp the entire story to fit it to an artificial ending...
...Lili-/ am her Grove...
...Naked and the Dead, in which Stripper Lili St. Cyr gets about halfway through her act before the cops raid the joint. (Article V, Section 1: "Dances suggesting sexual actions are . . . obscene...