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...minute he arrives in town, the farmer (Anthony Quinn) suffers the first assault on his indomitable optimism. On orders from the local chief of police (Gregoire Asian), who would like to tear up the mazere patch with the farmer's wife (Virna Lisi), the grinning lout is arrested and shipped off to a labor camp for Jews. "But I am not a Jew," he protests. "My son," an old Jew replies gently, "we live in a world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully...
...apex stands Virna Lisi, a quail with two hot pilots on her tail. Lieut. Tony Curtis bags her first, but Flight...
...actor of range and brilliance both on stage (The Merchant of Venice, Desire Under the Elms] and screen (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove). In Wife, he rises above all the plane foolishness to present a perfect caricature of the square-jawed joe on the Air Force recruiting poster. Curtis and Lisi do well to look competent in his company. And some congratulations are due Director Norman Panama, who keeps this airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail to notice how much of the ho ho is really just...
Assault on a Queen, written with a waterproof pen by Rod Serling, describes how a daredevil gang headed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Franciosa and Virna Lisi salvages a sunken German U-boat and uses it to stage a high-seas holdup of the Queen Mary. Despite the acknowledged cooperation of Cunard lines and the U.S. Coast Guard, most of the action appears to take place in a studio tank. When they are not scraping off barnacles or scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although...
...petals, even diamonds, all painstakingly pasted onto eyelids in fanciful designs. Some eyes took as long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue salon. There a covey of beauties (Virna Lisi, Anne McDonnell Ford and Stephanie Javits) flock for his touch at $20 a half-hour session...