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Fanfan the Tulip (Filmsonor; Lopert Films) is a legendary French hero who, to judge from this picture, was a sort of combination Robin Hood and Roy Rogers. During the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) has enough romantic adventures for a couple of action movies: he makes love to the king's pretty daughter and to the voluptuous daughter of a recruiting sergeant, rescues the Marquise de Pompadour from highway robbers, escapes from the hangman's noose by the skin of his profile, brings about the surrender of France's enemies on the battle...
Outcast of the Islands (London Films; Lopert) lavishes some major moviemaking talent by Carol (The Third Man) Reed on one of Joseph Conrad's minor works. Conrad's second (1896) novel is a study of a white man's disintegration in the Dutch East Indies. It is hothouse drama as luxuriant as its setting...
...Beloved Country (London Films; Lopert), Alan Paton's eloquent 1948 novel about South African race relations, after being translated into everything from Zulu to Broadwayese, now comes to the screen. The cinemadaptation was done by Author Paton* and the picture is largely faithful to the original...
...Tales of Hoffmann (London Films; Lopert) works hard to arrange the happy marriage of opera and movies that has always eluded cinematic matchmakers. It is a ceremonious attempt, two hours and 18 minutes long, dripping with Technicolor, crowded with talented performers and bearing the stamp of Britain's producing-directing-scripting team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose The Red Shoes turned many a moviegoer into a ballet fan. But Tales of Hoffmann is not likely to win many new converts to opera...
Difficult Years (Lopert), in the best tradition of the Italian postwar movie renaissance, shows the plight of ordinary people trying to survive the impact of overpowering events. Made by Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa, the least publicized of Italy's top three directors,* the film explores the effects of the last ten years of Fascist rule on a simple government clerk and his family in a Sicilian town...